Fig. 3. Lateral shoot development at consecutive node positions of wild-type (wt), max1-1 and max2-1 shoots. (A,B) Leaves and associated axillary shoots dissected from the shoot axis and laid out in the order of emergence, oldest leaf to the left. Scale bar: 5 cm. (A) Vegetative shoots after 52 days of growth in short photoperiods. The oldest 25 leaves and their axillary shoots have been dissected from the shoot axis. The remaining apical parts of the shoots are shown at the right. (B) Flowering shoots grown in long photoperiods, 9 days after the primary inflorescence started elongating. All the leaves and their axillary shoots were dissected from the shoot axis, the remaining primary inflorescences are shown at the top right. (C) Mean lateral inflorescence lengths and 95% confidence intervals of the means at consecutive node positions, conditions as in B. For nodes carrying a vegetative axillary shoot, lateral inflorescence length was scored as 0. Number of shoots analysed: wt n=12; max1-1, max2-1 n=7. The numbers of leaf-bearing nodes along the primary shoot axis ranged between 18 and 23 for wt, 19 and 23 for max1-1 and 19 and 27 for max2-1.