Fig. 4. Delayed germination of the 35S:ASD transgenic seeds. Seeds were air-dried for 2 weeks after harvesting and imbibed at 4℃ on MS-agar plates for 3 days. The cold-imbibed seeds were allowed to germinate at 22℃ under long days. Appearance of visi-ble radicles was used as a morphological marker for germination. Three measurements, each consisting of 80-100 seeds, were aver-aged. Bars represent standard error of the mean. h, hours after cold imbibition.
