Fig. 1.

Comparison of wild type (Nip) and spl33 plants. (A) Lesion mimic phenotype in spl33. a, clean leaf blade in the Nipponbare wild type (WT); b and c, lesion mimics at seedling and tillering stages of greenhouse-grown spl33 in winter; d and e, lesion mimics at seedling and tillering stages of field-grown spl33 in summer. (B) spl33 plant at tillering stage showing early senescence in spl33. (C) WT and spl33 plants at heading stage. Note that spl33 was full of lesion mimics. Nip, Nipponbare. Scale bar: 1cm in (A), 10 cm in (B, C).