“…Another phenotype of the SL-deficient and SLresponse mutants observed in various species (pea, Arabidopsis, rice, petunia, tomato [Solanum lycopersicum], and Lotus japonicus) is their shorter stature in comparison with the wild type (Beveridge et al, 1996;Napoli, 1996;Stirnberg et al, 2002;Ishikawa et al, 2005;Zou et al, 2006;Kohlen et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2013). Previously, it was shown in rice that this reduced plant height was in part a consequence of the increased branching, as manual removal of tillers in the rice htd1/d17 SL-deficient mutant led to an increase in overall plant height (Zou et al, 2006).…”