Flag leaves of barley genotypes were collected from all experimental variants at two time points (T1 and T2), and they were immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80°C until analysis. Total RNA (1–2 µg) was extracted in triplicates using the Qiagen (RRID : SCR_008539, http://www.qiagen.com, Hilden, Germany) RNeasy Plant Mini Kit according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Genomic DNA contamination was removed twice, i.e., on-column DNase digestion (RNase-Free DNase Set, Qiagen) and using the DNase Max Kit (Qiagen) during and after RNA isolation, respectively. Three flag leaves sampled from different plants of each genotype in a pot formed one replication, and three such replications were examined. RNA quantity, quality, and integrity were evaluated following the study by Mikołajczak et al. (2022) (link). The construction of a cDNA library (TruSeq stranded mRNA) and mRNA sequencing were performed by Macrogen Inc. (RRID : SCR_014454, http://www.macrogen.com, Seoul, Republic of Korea) using an Illumina NovaSeq6000 platform with a 150-bp paired-end configuration and the number of read pairs ranging from 18.3 to 40.9 M per sample.
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