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Table 1 Frequency of typical mutant phenotypes detected in the library

From: Construction of a high-density mutant library in soybean and development of a mutant retrieval method using amplicon sequencing

Phenotype description

Number of plants

Frequency (%)**

Albino (medium - heavy)*

76

4.4

Rugose leaves, dwarf*

11

0.6

Rugose leaves, semi-dwarf*

20

1.2

Rugose leaves, normal

31

1.8

Dwarf

17

1.0

Semi-dwarf

110

6.3

Early flowering

46

2.6

Early maturity

29

1.7

White flowers

6

0.3

Violet flowers

8

0.5

Short internodes

2

0.1

Long internodes

3

0.2

Narrow leaves

8

0.5

Low-density pubescence

3

0.2

Big primary leaves

6

0.3

Early defoliation

1

0.1

Easy lodging

1

0.1

Many leaves

1

0.1

Long peduncles

1

0.1

Many rootlets

2

0.1

Many root nodules

10

0.6

No root nodules

1

0.1

Many pods and early pod maturity

1

0.1

Wide pods and early maturity

2

0.1

Large seeds

27

1.6

Deep yellow seed coat

4

0.2

Light brown seed coat

2

0.1

  1. *Most plants produced no or few seeds
  2. **Frequency (%) was calculated from number of mutant for each phenotype divided by 1736 M2’ plants