Fig. 6.

Alteration of metabolites and trichome development in sk372 and their restoration in the CSN5a complementation lines. a Seed metabolites largely comprising phenylpropanoids and flavonoids. Numbers in the brackets after the compounds in the heatmap are the probabilities of relative abundance difference analysis; b Seed carotenoid levels, ‘*’ indicates significantly different from WT, p < 0.05; c Close-up examination of seedling trichomes in sk372 complemented with CSN5a or GL3. WT, non transgenic plant of Col-0; sk372, T-DNA activation tagged mutant; 10b2I, -II, -III, three biological replicates of CSN5a complementation line 10b2 of T3 generation; 2a3, 6a3, 6b2, 6b4, and 8b3, and 8b4, CSN5a complementation lines of T3 generation. Columns with * and ** were significantly different from WT, p < 0.05 and p < 0.01