Figure 8.

Overexpression of GmNMHC5 promoted the growth of lateral roots. (A) Hairy roots of the plants transformed by pGUS-GmNMHC5 or pGFPGUSPlus (as a control) via A. rhizogenes K599 with the binary vector, followed by 10 days of cultivation on 1/2 MS medium. After 5 days or 10 days of cultivation, the number of lateral roots from 30 transgenic hairy roots (B), the length of each longest lateral root from 30 transgenic hairy roots (C) and the elongation of 30 transgenic primary roots were recorded (D). The data represents the mean ± SD of three independent experiments. Means that are significantly different at the 1% (**) or 5% (*) confidence level, as detected by Student’s t-tests, are also shown.