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Figure 3

From: Overexpression of an ABA biosynthesis gene using a stress-inducible promoter enhances drought resistance in petunia

Figure 3

Drought stress resistance of rd29:LeNCED petunia. Plants of non-transformed control and transgenic rd29A:LeNCED1 line 8F were grown in pots filled with same amounts of UC Mix under non-stress conditions for 5 weeks and were subjected to drought stress by withholding water for 14 days. The control plants started wilting at day 3 and were severely wilted by day 10. In comparison, transgenic plants started to show wilting at day 10. The stressed plants were rehydrated to allow recovery and photographs were taken 10 days after re-watering. The number of surviving plants (out of the total tested) was indicated on the upper right of the image.

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