Table 5.

Ranking of reference genes and their expression stability values calculated using NormFinder.

Rank	Total		set1		set2		set3
	Gene	Stability	Gene	Stability	Gene	Stability	Gene	Stability
1	SAND	0.011	SAND	0.007	SAND	0.009	PGK	0.005
2	PGK	0.012	PGK	0.013	PGK	0.009	F-box	0.009
3	F-box	0.015	TUB	0.013	F-box	0.010	SAND	0.012
4	Actin	0.022	Actin	0.019	EF-1a	0.012	Actin	0.021
5	UBQ	0.022	EF-1a	0.021	MTP	0.015	UBQ	0.022
6	PP2A	0.023	UBQ	0.023	PP2A	0.019	MTP	0.023
7	TUB	0.030	F-box	0.023	Actin	0.021	TUB	0.028
8	EF-1a	0.034	PP2A	0.025	UBQ	0.021	PP2A	0.029
9	MTP	0.036	MTP	0.028	TUB	0.030	EF-1a	0.029