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Figure 3

From: Deregulation of the OsmiR160 Target Gene OsARF18 Causes Growth and Developmental Defects with an Alteration of Auxin Signaling in Rice

Figure 3

mOsARF18 transgenic plants exhibited pleiotropic defects in growth and development.

(a) Forty-day old wild-type (left), mOsARF18-3 (middle) and mOsARF18-5 (right) plants. Bar: 10 cm. (b) The fifth leaves of wild-type (left), mOsARF18–3 (middle) and mOsARF18-5 (right) plants. Bar: 1 mm. (c,d) Ten-DAP (Days After Pollination) wild-type (left), mOsARF18-3 (middle) and mOsARF18-5 (right) developing seeds. Bars: (c,d) 1 mm. Lemma and palea were removed in (d) to show attached stamens. (e,f) Wild-type (e) and mOsARF18-3 (f) mature seeds. Bars: (e,f) 1 mm. (g,h) Sixty-day old transgenic plants showed significantly (*P < 0.01) decreased pant height (g) and tiller numbers (h) than that of wild type plants. (i–l) Mature transgenic plant seeds showed no difference in seed length (j), but significantly (*P < 0.01) decreased seed setting (i), width (k) and weight (l).

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