TABLE 2

Summary of regression equations for EN number and SC segment length for six plant species

	Slope			Intercept			Reg MS (d.f.)	Res MS (d.f.)
Species	Coefficient	SD	P value	Coefficient	SD	P value	Reg MS (d.f.)	Res MS (d.f.)	r²
A. cepa	0.38	0.06	<0.001	0.26	4.18	0.95	1771.1 (1)	52.4 (8)	0.81
C. betacae	0.55	0.06	<0.001	1.32	1.49	0.40	1055.7 (1)	13.3 (10)	0.89
L. esculentum	1.32	0.10	<0.001	0.55	0.83	0.52	2535.0 (1)	13.5 (40)	0.82
L. longiflorum	1.50	0.09	<0.001	0.91	1.07	0.41	2155.4 (1)	8.0 (13)	0.95
P. nudum	0.86	0.06	<0.001	0.83	0.40	0.05	721.8 (1)	3.48 (40)	0.84
T. edwardsiana	1.13	0.14	<0.001	3.79	3.15	0.26	4987.0 (1)	75.1 (9)	0.88