For qRT-PCR analysis, total RNA was extracted by using an
RNA-simple Total RNA Kit (Tiangen Biotech Co., Ltd., Beijing, China) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
P.
sojae and
N.
benthamiana cDNA was synthesized with the
HiScript II Q RT SuperMix for qPCR (Vazyme Biotech Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China). Real-time PCR was performed by using a
SYBR Premix Ex Taq Kit (Takara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan) on an
ABI Prism 7500 Fast Real-Time PCR system following the manufacturer’s instructions. Expression levels were normalized to the expression of
NbACTIN and
PsActin, which are stably expressed reference genes in
N.
benthamiana and
P.
sojae, respectively. The primers used for qRT–PCR are listed in
S4 Data. All the qRT-PCR results showed in this study were calculated from three independent biological replicates.
For bioinformatics analysis, sequences were aligned using the MUSCLE software [58 (
link)]. Phylogenetic trees were constructed using the MEGAX software (
https://www.megasoftware.net/) with Neighbor-Joining method (Bootstrap = 1000,
p-distance,
pairwise deletion) and visualized using EvolView v3 [59 (
link)]. Weblogo were obtained using Weblogo 3 [60 (
link)].
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