Flowers of O. japonica were selected for RNA extraction by using RNA pure Plant Kit (CWBIO, China) according to the instructions. Subsequently, one μg total RNA was used to synthesize the cDNA through the method described previously (Sun et al., 2019 (link)). Specific primers for cloning the full-length gene coding sequence were designed based on the assembled transcriptomic information. After PCR, the products of appropriate length were sub-cloned into the pMD18-T vector (Takara, Japan) and verified by sequencing. The list of primers used for gene cloning is provided in Table S1. Multisequence alignment of deduced protein sequences was analyzed using DNAMAN 6.0. And the Neighbor-Joining phylogenetic tree was constructed with MEGA version 7.0 software using 1,000 bootstrap replicates.
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