Table 3. Summary of sRNAs Identified by High-Throughput Sequencing.

sRNA Population	Mocka			PSTVd-Ib			PSTVd-Mc
	sRNAd	PSTVd-I sRNAe	PSTVd-M sRNAf	sRNAd	vd-sRNA	% vd-sRNAg	sRNAd	vd-sRNA	% vd-sRNA
21 nucleotides	585,563	39	41	700,131	160,598	22.9	560,960	29,273	5.2
22 nucleotides	548,009	57	58	839,033	288,180	34.3	560,365	66,438	11.8
23 nucleotides	721,920	2	2	622,373	13,218	2.1	791,306	3,121	0.4
24 nucleotides	2,424,949	8	7	2,155,006	26,150	1.2	2,627,483	5,101	0.2
21 to 24 nucleotides	4,280,441	106	108	4,316,543	488,146	11.3	4,540,114	103,933	2.3

^asRNA isolated from a mock-inoculated plant.

^bsRNA isolated from a PSTVd-I-inoculated plant.

^csRNA isolated from a PSTVd-M-inoculated plant.

^dTotal number of individual sRNAs.

^esRNAs identical to the genomic (+) and antigenomic (−) strands of PSTVd-I .

^fsRNA identical to the genomic (+) and antigenomic (−) strands of PSTVd-M.

^gPercentage of vd-sRNAs relative to total sRNAs of the same size.