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The informative genome-wide InDel markers, especially those resolved/genotyped by a simpler cost-effective agarose gel-based assay, exhibiting high intra-specific polymorphic potential among accessions belonging to cultivated and wild chickpea are highly significant.

A negative trend may occur when higher grain yield leads to lower grain P concentration due to a “dilution effect” (Batten, 1992 ; McDonald et al., 2008 ) or when higher grain yield is the result of superior P utilization efficiency.

Although there was considerable variability in the data set, this model was highly significant and accounted for more variability ( R 2 = 0.36) in the data than segmented quadratic-plateau or non-segmented linear or non-linear models.

An interesting trend throughout the time course was seen for MLPs.

The two parents showed highly significant differences in plant height.

(2009) showed that the periodic expression of HEMA1 , CHLH and GUN4 observed during seedling growth in darkness was strongly disordered in pif1 and pif3 mutants with an increasing trend.

Several DEGs showed a trend of increasing and decreasing.

The relationships between Σ Ca 2+ +Cd 2+ and Ca 2+ flux in the absence of CdCl 2 [Σ Ca 2+ (-Cd 2+ ) ] were highly significant and close to 1 for NM and MAJ colonized roots and slightly increased to 1.4 for NAU colonized roots ( Figure 4 ).

The green cotyledon rates of srp1-1 and srp1-2 were significantly higher than WT from the seventh day to the eleventh day when 1 μM exogenous ABA was applied, and the difference between mutants and WT was extremely significant from the ninth day to the eleventh day ( Figure 5B ).

Highly significant variations were observed in all genotypic and livestock nutrition traits, although location and year had significant effects.

Presence of Intermediate PD Generalized linear models analysis showed that the effects of silicle position on raceme, treatment (i.e., intact silicles and isolated seeds) and cold stratification time on germination were highly significant, but none of the interactions had significant effects ( Table 2 ).

This approach is one that can be adapted for other species and pathogens, as the future role of resistance genes from existing but underexploited genetic resources is likely to be significant.

Both sampling depth and position had a highly significant effect on the proportions of maize root biomass C in our samples.

An extremely significant difference was found between these two plant groups with the control.

A close examination of the functionality of the ESTs mapped in the QTL regions revealed an interesting trend.

Highly significant genotypic differences were observed for the expression of all the different traits assessed within the Andean and Mesoamerican gene pool accessions and across the drought stress and non-stress treatments.

Conclusion In summary, comprehensive analysis of the long-term weather data confirmed that climate variability and the associated risks for crop production in semi-arid Eastern Kenya are particularly high and have an increasing trend.

Phenolic Composition in Fruit and VOO Total phenols content (TPC), calculated as the sum of phenolic fractions on a mesocarp FW basis [mg (g FW) -1 ], showed a decreasing trend during fruit development, independently of the irrigation regime ( Figure 2A ).

In conclusion, in the present study, we identified 42 SNP markers highly significant associated with salt-tolerance traits.

As compared to control, the sucrose content decreased at 20, 10 days before heading, and was observed an increasing trend at 20 days after heading.

australis , a negative trend with stomatal conductance was found and no correlation with leaf thickness.

Expression pattern “C” showed a trend of down to up regulation.

An interesting trend was observed after clustering of differentially expressed lncRNAs (Figure 5A ).

Grouping according to WUEc and the instantaneous values of CWSI R resulted in highly significant differences for fruit size and dry matter.

There was a highly significant difference between the self- and cross-pollination pollen tubes beginning at 5 DASP or DACP ( Figure 7 ).