Table II.

Specific activity of SOD in transgenic tobacco leaves continuously irrigated (well-watered plants) or exposed to 15 d of water deprivation (droughted plants)

Water Regime	SOD Activity
	Controla	Senseb	Antisensec
		unit mg−1
Well-watered plants	13.656 ± 2.702	12.384 ± 0.541	11.810 ± 0.806
Droughted plants	17.302 ± 1.354	13.470 ± 1.641	24.423 ± 0.538

Values represent means ± se (n = 5).

^a pBI121-transformed control plants. 

^b BiP-overexpressing plants (35S-BiPS). 

^c Antisense BiP cDNA-transformed control plants (35S-BiPAS).