Table 1.

RNA quality assessment of samples studied in this work.

Experiment	Arabidopsis	Sample	A260/A280(a)	RIN(b)	28S/18S(b)
Repeat-1	Col	1	1.97	7.1	1.3
sdg25	2	2.04	7.0	1.3
sdg26	3	2.06	7.0	1.3
sdg25 sdg26	4	1.95	7.2	1.6
atx1	5	2.06	7.0	1.3
sdg26 atx1	6	2.03	7.0	1.4
clf	7	1.86	7.1	1.3
sdg26 clf	8	2.05	7.0	1.6
ldl1 ldl2	9	1.92	7.4	1.7
sdg25 ldl1 ldl2	10	2.04	7.0	1.3
sdg26 ldl1 ldl2	11	1.91	7.2	1.4
Repeat-2	Col	12	1.92	7.4	1.5
sdg25	13	1.88	7.0	1.3
sdg26	14	2.02	7.0	1.5
sdg25 sdg26	15	1.95	7.0	1.4
atx1	16	2.01	7.0	1.3
sdg26 atx1	17	2.03	7.0	1.3
clf	18	1.85	7.0	1.3
sdg26 clf	19	2.02	7.0	1.4
ldl1 ldl2	20	1.91	7.4	1.6
sdg25 ldl1 ldl2	21	1.96	7.6	1.4
sdg26 ldl1 ldl2	22	2.02	7.3	1.4
Repeat-3	Col	23	1.98	7.2	1.9
sdg25	24	1.93	7.2	1.8
sdg26	25	1.94	7.0	1.6
sdg25 sdg26	26	2.01	7.0	1.4
atx1	27	1.95	7.3	1.5
sdg26 atx1	28	1.97	7.1	1.4
clf	29	1.95	7.1	1.4
sdg26 clf	30	1.93	7.0	1.6
ldl1 ldl2	31	1.93	7.4	1.5
sdg25 ldl1 ldl2	32	1.95	7.1	1.7
sdg26 ldl1 ldl2	33	2.01	7.4	1.7

(a) A ratio of A260/A280 > 1.8 indicates little protein contamination.

(b) RNA integration number (RIN) ≥ 7.0 and 28S/18S ≥ 0.7 indicate good quality for microarray assay.