Figure 5. The effect of the heterologous expression of TaTIP2;2 on the expression of abiotic stress-related genes in A. thaliana.

(A) ABI1, ABI2 and ABF3 expression was not affected. (B) SOS1, SOS2 and SOS3 were down-regulated. (C) CBF3, DREB2A and P5CS1 were down-regulated. Col: wild type Col-0 ecotype, OE1 and OE2: T₃ selections expressing TaTIP2;2. Standard deviation was calculated with STDEVP function of Microsoft Excel 2010. Asterisks indicate significant differences between means (Student’s t-test, P<0.05 or 0.01).