Fig. 3.
Flag leaf and root phenotypes of ZUOErN plants. (A) Flag leaf morphologies. Scale bar=10 cm. (B) Cross-sections of flag leaves. Scale bars=1 cm. (C) Root morphologies of water-cultured ZH-WT and ZUOErN3 plants at the flowering stage. Scale bar=10 cm. (D) Area of mature flag leaves. (E) Numbers of large and small vascular bundles in the middle section of flag leaves. (F) Total root lengths per plant in the flowering stage. ZH-WT, wild-type Zhonghua 11. ZUOErN3 and ZUOErN4 are transgenic Zhonghua 11 plants overexpressing the miR164b-resistant OsNAC2 driven by the maize Ubiquitin1 promoter. Means ±SD are given in (D) (n=10) and (F) (n=4). *P<0.05; **P<0.01 (t-test).