Table 1.
Effectiveness ofPDSsilencing in the spikes of Xiaoyan 6 plants inoculated with BSMV:PDS at three different development stages
| Development stage | Inoculation location | No. of plants inoculateda |
No. of plants with photobleaching phenotypesb |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partial photobleaching | Complete photobleaching | |||
| Booting |
Flag leaf |
10 |
8 |
1 |
| Spike |
10 |
2 |
0 |
|
| Heading |
Flag leaf |
10 |
4 |
4 |
| Spike |
10 |
0 |
9 |
|
| Flowering | Flag leaf |
10 |
0 |
0 |
| Spike | 10 | 0 | 10 | |
a This experiment was conducted with three independent biological replicates, ten plants were inoculated for each condition.
b Numbers of plants with partial or complete photobleaching were reproducible in three biological replicates.