Because store lipids in seeds are food reserve for seed germination
and seedling growth, we investigated the seed germination
rate after down regulation of OsLTPL36. The results showed that
8.9%, 20.1% and 18.3% of seed failed to germinate in the OsLTPL36-
RNAi lines i5-5, i8-3 and i23-2, respectively. In addition, some
germinated seeds formed abnormal seedling with no root or only
two leaves (Fig. 7, Table S4). These results indicated that knockdown
of OsLTPL36 resulted in decreased seed germination rate and
weakened seedling in rice.