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. 2015 Aug 13;10(8):e0135408. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135408

Fig 4. Chloroplast structures and western blots of photosynthesis-related proteins in seedlings grown under Rc irradiation.

Fig 4

TEM images showing typical structures of chloroplasts in leaf sheath cells of the WT (A) and phyB (B) seedlings grown under Rc (15μmol m-2 s-1) for 9 days. Scale bars represent 1μm. (C) Western blotting analyses of photosynthesis-related proteins in phytochrome mutants grown under Rc for 9 days using rabbit polyclonal antiserum against CF1α, PsaA/B, Cytf, PsbA and LHCII. Rabbit polyclonal antiserum against rice importin-α (Imp α), a typical housekeeping protein, was used as the loading control. Proteins extracted from 0.67 mg of fresh weight of seedlings were used for this analysis. Dilution series of the WT samples are also shown on the blots. Reproducibility of the result was confirmed with two more biological replicates.