Purified RNA samples (the same leaves as those used for the RNA-Seq analysis) were reverse-transcribed using the MLV-Reverse transcriptase (Takara Bio, Inc., Otsu, Japan). Thirteen genes from the DEGs list were used for RT-qPCR assay on a Bio-Rad CFX96 real-time PCR detection system. The detailed information of primer pairs was listed in Supplementary Table 1. The 2−ΔΔCT method (Grabherr et al., 2011 (link)) was used to calculate the relative expression level of each gene.
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