Research Article

Lack of Correlation between Ammonium Accumulation and Survival of Transgenic Birch Plants with Pine Cytosolic Glutamine Synthetase Gene after “Basta” Herbicide Treatment

Table 1

Water content in foliar tissue of birch plants in three days after the herbicide treatment.

GenotypeLineWater content after the treatment, %
Water2.5 Lha−1 “Basta”5 Lha−1 “Basta”

bp3f1Control54.8 ± 0.5 30.8 ± 2.733.9 ± 1.3
F14GS2b55.9 ± 1.243.6 ± 1.843.7 ± 2.2
F14GS2c55.2 ± 0.645.9 ± 2.339.3 ± 2.7
F14GS8b55.3 ± 0.546.9 ± 2.042.4 ± 1.4
F14GS9b52.8 ± 1.142.0 ± 4.039.3 ± 2.9
F14GS16b56.7 ± 0.841.8 ± 2.435.5 ± 2.2

bp4aControl54.4 ± 0.746.0 ± 3.941.1 ± 1.6
P9GS18b55.5 ± 1.045.8 ± 3.047.6 ± 4.8
P17GS1a57.2 ± 0.441.6 ± 3.240.6 ± 1.6
P17GS252.5 ± 0.530.1 ± 2.023.1 ± 1.0

Data indicate mean ± SE ().
Letters indicate significance of differences at .