Figure 3

Transcriptional downregulation of CRKs in response to light stress. Expression of APX2 (a marker for light stress) and CRKs was analyzed by qPCR in plants after 1 h and 2 h exposure to light stress conditions and after 4 h light stress followed by 4 hours recovery at normal growth light conditions. Transcript levels were calculated by comparison of light stress-treated plants with corresponding control plants grown under normal light conditions. An expression level of one indicates no change of expression, increased expression is indicated by values larger than one while decreased expression is shown by values smaller than one. Increase of expression by 2-fold or higher is high-lighted in red and decrease in expression by 2-fold or more in green. NR - no reproducible data could be obtained for this gene. The experiment was repeated twice; fold change was calculated from the average normalized cycle difference of all biological repeats. Statistical significance (Benjamini-Hochberg FDR corrected p-value ≤ 0.1) is indicated with asterisks (see additional file 1).