Fig. 1

Panicle characters of the miR156f-related plants and expression analysis of some panicle related genes. a Overall morphology of the panicles of the MIM156fOE and the WT ZH11 plants. b Statistical analysis of the panicle length of the MIM156fOE plants, the cs mutant and the WT ZH11 (n = 30). c Statistical analysis of the number of the PBs and SBs of the MIM156fOE plants, the cs mutant and the WT ZH11 (n = 20). d Statistical analysis of the pedicel length of the MIM156fOE plants and the WT ZH11 (n = 20). e Overall morphology of the panicles of the cs mutant and the WT ZH11. f Expression analysis of some panicle development related genes in the MIM156fOE plants, the cs mutant and the WT ZH11 by qRT-PCR (n = 3), young panicles of 2 cm long were used for detection. Single and double asterisks represent significant difference determined by the Student’s t-test at *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01