Fig. 2. Morphological phenotypes of sac acl5 mutants. (A)
From left to right, 6-week-old wild-type (WT), acl5 and sac
acl5 plants. (B,C) Longitudinal (B) and transverse (C)
sections of the first internode of wild-type (WT), acl5 and sac
acl5 inflorescence stems. Scale bars: 200 µm. (D) Quantitative
RT-PCR analysis of the HD-Zip III class genes. Total RNA was prepared from
whole seedlings of 12-day-old wild-type (WT), acl5 and sac
acl5 plants. Levels of the ACTIN8 (ACT8) transcript
were used as a reference; values are expressed as ratios to the transcript
level of each gene in the wild-type seedlings. Bars show mean±s.d.
(n=3).