Evidence for an evolutionarily conserved interaction between cell wall biosynthesis and flowering in maize and sorghum

Table 1 Comparison of mean, standard deviation and median flowering time (in days after planting) of bmr mutants and their corresponding wild-type controls in the two locations.

Location	Rep	Genotype	n	Mean	SD	Median
A	1	bmr2	22	99.1	4.51	99
		N2	56	88.5	2.70	88
	2	bmr2	38	98.1	3.37	98
		N2	66	92.0	5.42	90
	1	bmr3	56	86.6	1.42	87
		N3	86	86.5	1.09	87
	2	bmr3	59	87.4	1.82	87
		N3	85	86.2	1.17	86
	1	bmr4	48	92.9	2.95	94
		N4	65	87.0	1.87	87
	2	bmr4	41	91.1	4.17	89
		N4	44	87.9	2.01	87
	1	bmr6	60	94.0	4.72	94
		N6	54	88.9	2.15	88
	2	bmr6	56	93.5	4.16	94
		N6	53	91.6	2.54	92
	1	bmr7	48	94.6	3.62	95
		N7	51	97.8	4.14	97
	2	bmr7	45	93.3	3.12	94
		N7	41	99.3	3.68	99
	1	bmr12	49	98.9	4.34	99
		N12	65	93.5	4.55	94
	2	bmr12	56	101.6	2.29	103
		N12	55	93.9	3.88	94
	1	bmr18	44	95.9	2.34	96
		N18	57	95.0	4.11	95
	2	bmr18	27	97.2	3.31	97
		N18	49	98.6	4.29	99
	1	bmr19	32	93.0	3.46	94
		N19	75	87.6	1.42	87
	2	bmr19	42	95.6	4.9	95
		N19	52	87.6	1.87	87
B		bmr6	44	92.6	2.78	92
		N6	49	90.4	3.92	90
		bmr12	17	95.7	3.08	96
		N12	17	88.8	3.15	88
		bmr18	29	92.9	2.93	93
		N18	22	94.5	2.11	94

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