Fig. 7.

Relative expression levels of drought- and ABA-responsive genes in mlp43-1 mutant and MLP43 OE plants. The two-week-old plants were subjected to ABA treatment (50 μM) for 3h and air dried for 6h, respectively. The expression levels of the selected drought- and ABA-responsive genes were analysed quantitatively by qRT-PCR. Gene expression levels were analysed relative to the corresponding gene expression levels in Col-0 plants. The values of gene expression levels of Col-0 seedlings without ABA treatment were taken as ‘1’. Expression levels of β-ACTIN8 represent the internal control. The data represent means ±SEs of three reproducible experiments (P<0.01).