Fig. 4From: PcDWF1, a pear brassinosteroid biosynthetic gene homologous to AtDWARF1, affected the vegetative and reproductive growth of plantsThe phenotypes of the seeds and the seedlings of the transgenic lines overexpressing PcDWF1 and the control tobacco plants. a The seeds of the transgenic lines overexpressing PcDWF1 and the control tobacco plants. b The expression of PcDWF1 in eight transgenic tobacco lines and the control tobacco plants. c The phenotypes of the transgenic tobacco lines and the control tobacco seedlings under continuous light/dark conditions for 10 days. d The weight of the seed pods of the transgenic tobacco line 3 and the control tobacco plants. The root length (e) and the hypocotyl length (f) of the transgenic tobacco lines and the control tobacco seedlings under continuous light/dark conditions for 10 days. Data are the means ± SD of triplicate experiments. Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences according to Fisher’s LSD (P < 0.05). Asterisks (*) indicate significant differences from the control (Student’s t-test, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01)Back to article page