Table 4

Marker genes were used to trace pollen transfer from transformed to wild-type plants with intact anthers. A hand-pollination test was used to evaluate the effect of direct transfer on seed set. Moths (M. sexta) visitedtwo arrays (1 and 2) of wild-type and transformed plants but were excluded from the third array.

Treatment

Wild-type plants in treatment

Wild-type plants setting seed

Plants with transformed offspring

Seeds per capsule (Mean ± SE)

Transformed offspring per capsule (Mean ± SE)

Hand-pollination

8

8

8

154.2 ± 8.0

3.2 ± 1.3

Array 1

12

9

7

124.6 ± 11.8

2.4 ± 0.9

Array 2

1

1

1

148.5 ± 15.2

3.5 ± 1.5

Array 3

8

7

0

105.6 ± 7.2

0

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