Figure 1.

The effect of varying degrees of osmotic stress on seedling growth. (A) Seedlings 3 days after germination (DAG) were grown on increasing concentrations of PEG medium for two weeks and photographed. This long-term treatment was performed in the same way as in the following experiments. Bar = 10 cm. (B,C) Measurement of shoot (B) and seminal root (C) lengths from seedlings in (A). Error bars present means ± SD (n = 15) of three biological replicates; a, b, c, d, e, f, and g indicate the significant differences obtained via two-way ANOVA (Tukey’s test) where p < 0.05. (D,E) Relative shoot (D) and root (E) length by normalizing with 0% PEG in each genotype.