A hairy-leaf gene, BLANKET LEAF, of wild Oryza nivara increases photosynthetic water use efficiency in rice

Rice

Table 1 Elongated macro-hair density and total macro-hair (sum of elongated and short types of macro-hair) density of leaves in IR24 and IL-hairy at the tillering stage

Line	Elongated macro-hair density (no mm⁻²)		Total macro-hair density (no mm⁻²)
	Adaxial	Abaxial	Adaxial	Abaxial
IR24	0.1 ± 0.3	0.0 ± 0.0	15.2 ± 2.0	6.9 ± 2.3
IL-hairy	3.5 ± 0.5	3.8 ± 0.4	16.4 ± 1.5	7.0 ± 1.5
	*** ^a	***	ns	ns

Data are means ± SD (n = 4). ^a *** P = 0.01; ns, not significant by Student’s t-test at P = 0.05