Semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR and
quantitative reverse transcriptase (qRT)-PCR
Semi-quantitative RT-PCR and qRT-PCR analyses were performed as
previously described (Zhang, Liu, et al., 2014). RNA was extracted from
5-d-old seedlings. Three biological and three technical repetitions were
performed for each combination of cDNA samples and primer pairs. The
primers used are listed in Supplementary Table 1.