Total RNA was extracted from the maturing zones [23 (
link)] of the first upper newly developed leaves which were harvested at 15 days post inoculation (dpi) with
TRNzol reagent (Tiangen, Beijing, China) and then treated with
RNase-free DNase I (TaKaRa, Dalian, China). First strand cDNA was synthesized using 1 μg total RNA,
M-MLV reverse transcriptase (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) and random hexamer primer according to the manufacturer’s instructions. PCR was performed using S7-specific primers (qRP-F: 5′-GCTCCTACTGAGTTGCCTGTC-3′ and P1-R: 5′-TCAGCAAAAGGTAAAGGAAGG-3′) [24 (
link)] and
Ex Taq (TaKaRa, Dalian, China) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. RT-qPCR was performed using ten-fold diluted cDNA product, primers qRP-F and P1-R and
FastSYBR mixture (CWBIO, Beijing, China) with
ABI PRISM 7500 sequence detection system (Applied Biosystems Inc., Foster City, CA, USA). Viral concentrations were measured as described previously [19 (
link),24 (
link)] via comparing the threshold cycles (Ct) value of each sample with the standard curve, constructed based on Ct values of serially diluted recombinant plasmid containing a partial fragment of RBSDV S7.
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