Total RNA from tobacco roots, stems, leaves, floral tissues including sepals, petals, stamens and pistils were prepared using TRIzol Reagent (Invitrogen) and first-strand cDNAs were generated using the cDNA EcoDry kit (Clontech, Madison, USA). The qPCR conditions and gene-specific primers are described in previous studies [20 (link),30 (link)]. Gene-specific primers for NtF3′5′H, NtMYB3 and NtETC1 are listed in Table S1. Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) gene, which was previously used in gene expression analysis of transgenic tobaccos was used as an internal reference [8 (link),30 (link)]. Three biological replicates were examined for each sample.
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