Decreasing the expression of <i>OsVTC1-1</i> impairs the tolerance of rice seedlings to salt stress.

<p>(A), phenotypes of <i>OsVTC1-1</i> RI lines under salt stress. Control indicates that rice seedlings were grown under normal conditions, and NaCl indicates that seedlings were treated with 150 mM NaCl aqueous solution. (B), the percentage survival rates (Percentage is the ratio of number of plants with green new leaves to number of total plants) of <i>OsVTC1-1</i> RI plants after salt treatment in (A). WT represents ZH17 rice variety; RI1-1, RI1-2 and RI1-3 indicate independent RNA interference lines of <i>OsVTC1-1</i> in ZH17 background, respectively. About 50~60 seedlings were uses in each experiment. The bars represent SE (±) of three independent assays, and the asterisk indicates results significantly different from WT (**P<0.01 and *P<0.05). Significance was evaluated using the <i>t</i>-test.