Table 1.

2mDNA1-induced gene silencing on different N. tabacum cultivars

N. tabacum cultivar	Numbera			Average VIGS efficiency (%)
	Experiment 1	Experiment 2	Experiment 3
Yun87	12/12/12	19/20/20	10/12/12	92.7±7.5b
Yunyan85	11/12/12	19/20/20	10/12/12	91.7±8.3
K326	10/12/12	16/20/20	9/12/12	79.4±4.2
NC89	12/12/12	20/20/20	12/12/12	100
Xanthi	12/12/12	20/20/20	12/12/12	100

^aSilenced plants/infected plants/inoculated plants

^bData are expressed as mean±SD (n=3)