Figure 2. Effects of ethanol inducible expression on the viability of seedlings transformed by different RNAi constructs.

Plants carrying the p35S:AlcR construct and a Nos terminator (PSRN) [19] were transformed with RNAi constructs under the pAlcA promoter in order to inactivate either DMC1 (a meiotic gene), or EMB506 (a gene which is embryo-lethal when mutated) or DUT1 (two independent lines) expression. All the plants are of the same Ws ecotype as the WT or PSRN control seedlings.