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Supplementary Fig. S1 Phenotype of wild-type and three transgenic lines. a 12-day-old seedlings grown vertically in the Petri plates on MS medium. b 20-day-old seedlings gown in pots filled with soilrite mixture. C Mature plants in the pots. No significant differences were observed in the phenotypes of transgenic lines as compared to wild-type

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Modified expression of an auxin-responsive rice CC-type glutaredoxin gene affects multiple abiotic stress responses

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Supplementary Fig. S5 Leaf disc assays showing salt and oxidative stress tolerance of wild-type and transgenic Arabidopsis plants. The leaves from mature wild-type and transgenic plants were floated on different concentrations of NaCl (a) and hydrogen peroxide (b) and photographed after three days of incubation

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Supplementary Fig. S8 Hormone and stress response of wild-type and RNAi transgenic rice plants. (a,b) Root growth of wild-type and transgenic rice seedlings grown on MS medium supplemented with 1 µM IAA (a) and 4 µM ABA (b). (c) Seed germination of wild-type and RNAi lines on MS medium supplemented with 150 mM mannitol

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Supplementary Fig. S10 Venn diagrams showing number of differentially expressed genes in wild-type and over-expression transgenic lines in microarray analysis. (a, b) Venn diagrams showing number of differentially expressed genes in transgenic Arabidopsis line (a) and wild-type (b) in the presence of IAA, MV and NaCl. (c) Number of genes differentially expressed commonly or specifically regulated under different conditions. The numbers outside the Venn diagrams represent total number of genes differentially expressed and the numbers within Venn diagrams represent the number of genes up-regulated, down-regulated (in parentheses) and up-regulated under one and down-regulated under other condition (marked with asterisk)

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