Figure 7.

Verification of RNA-seq results by qRT-PCR. Twelve genes encoding transcription factors were randomly selected examination to determine whether they were up-regulated or down-regulated following GA₃ application. Histograms represent relative transcript abundance as determined by qRT-PCR data, reported as the means ± SE of two biological replicates (three technical replicates were carried out for each biological replicate). Heat maps indicate changes in gene expression. The color scale represents relative expression levels with red denoting up-regulation, green denoting down-regulation and white denoting no change.