Figure 5.

Effect of Moderate Heat Stress (30°C for 4 h per d) on Mature Wild-Type Plants and Δrca Mutants Expressing RCA1 or Thermostable Variants 183H12, 301C7, and 382D8.

(A) Developmental analysis of plants described in Figure 4. Numbers represent the percentage of plants in each developmental stage after 4 weeks of growth.

(B) Photograph of mature plants (8 weeks old).

(C) Number of siliques per plant. Eight to 10 independent plants per line were analyzed.

(D) Seed weight (mg/1000 seeds) of seeds harvested from the selected lines (five independent plants per line).