Figure 6.
Phenotypic analysis of MdCBL10.1 cisgenic apple plants under 150 mM NaCl treatment. (A) Growth phenotypes of cisgenic apple plants after NaCl treatment. Scale bars represent 3 cm. (B) Relative electrolyte leakage (REL) of apple leaves. (C) Malondialdehyde (MDA) content in apple leaves. Representative chlorophyll fluorescence images (D), Fv/Fm ratios (E), and net photosynthetic rate (Pn) (F) of cisgenic apple plants under normal and NaCl stress conditions. (OE)-EV and (RNAi)-EV represent roots transformed with the empty vector pCambia2300 and pK7GWIWG2D, respectively. The values of each index for cisgenic plants of the same type are the average values from all lines. Values are means of 20 replicates ± SD (each plant acts as a biological replicate). * in each panel denotes values significantly different from the corresponding control lines (p < 0.05, Student t test).
