Figure 8.

Complementation of ssi2 Plants with Full-Length and N-Terminal Truncated SSI2 cDNAs.

(A) Morphological phenotypes displayed by the transgenic plants overexpressing SSI2 or SSI2 ΔN-t cDNA. Plants were grown on soil and photographed after 4 weeks.

(B) Expression of the SSI2 and PR-1 genes in transgenic plants overexpressing SSI2 or SSI2 ΔN-t cDNA. The band marked by the arrow represents endogenous SSI2 transcript. RNA gel blot analysis was performed on 5 μg of total RNA extracted from 4-week-old soil-grown plants. Ethidium bromide staining of rRNA was used as a loading control.