Figure 5: PIN8 and PIN5 act antagonistically.

(a) Morphological defects in pollen of pin5 (2,400) and pin8 (2,400) single mutants were rescued in pin5 pin8 (3,300) double mutants as shown by DAPI staining. A total of 7,100 wild-type (WT) pollens were counted as the control. Error bars represent the standard error of more than 23 independent plants (Student's t-test, **P<0.01). (b) The reduced pollen transmission ability in the pin8 mutant was rescued in the pin5 pin8 double mutant. Error bars represent the standard error of more than ten independent crosses (Student's t-test, *P<0.5). (c,d) The long hypocotyl phenotype of the PIN8OX line was rescued in the PIN8OX PIN5OX line. Error bars represent the standard error of three independent experiments (n=60, Student's t-test, **P<0.01). (e) Specific HPLC chromatogram of IAA metabolic profile of PIN8OX was largely rescued in the PIN8OX PIN5OX line (2.5-h incubation with 3H-IAA). Arrows indicate the notable changes in the IAA metabolic profile. (f) The decreased free IAA-Asp of the PIN8OX line was rescued in the PIN8OX PIN5OX line. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean, n=3 (Student's t-test, *P<0.05).