Total RNA was extracted via the
RNA-easy Isolation Reagent Kit (Vazyme, R701-01, Nanjing, China). Plant gene expression was quantified by real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) performed under strict experimental designs (
Supplementary Table S2). All the qRT-PCR analyses were conducted using primers (
Supplementary Table S3) of high specificities, which were verified by the melting-curve method [22 (
link)], and using the constitutively expressed
EF1α gene as a reference [10 (
link)]. The qPCR experiments were conducted on the ABI QuantStudio 3a 96 Real-Time PCR system (Thermo Fisher, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA) using the ChamQ
TM Universal SYBR
® qPCR Master Mix (Vazyme, Q711-02, Nanjing, China). Relative expression levels of the tested genes (
IMPβ1,
EIN2C, related variants, and defense response genes, listed in
Supplementary Table S3) were quantified as ratios of their transcript amounts to the
EF1α transcript quantity. Callose visualization was performed on leaves as previously described [11 (
link)].
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