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. 2016 Nov 10;7:1686. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01686

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Extractable XET activity in excised segments of (a) root apical region, (b) root sub-apical region, and (c) shoot from 3-day-old durum wheat (T. durum Desf.) seedlings of (i) Simeto, (ii) Creso, and (iii) Ardente cultivars, differing in dehydration tolerance. The seedlings of each cultivar were subjected to drought stress for 2, 4, and 24 h. XET activity is expressed as nmol of xyloglucan–XXXGol-SR formed by the transglycosylation reaction, per mg of total protein. The results represent the average of n independent replications ± standard error. Different capital letters above bars indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between time points within the same cultivar, while lower case letters indicate statistically significant differences across cultivars in response to stress duration, as determined by the Tukey’s post hoc test.