Figure 3. The tissue- or stage-specific expression of two PEBP genes, SrFT and SrMFT.

(a) Tissue-specific expression in plant tissues. (b) Tissue-specific expression in floral tissues. (c) Stage-specific expression in flowers during the transition from floral buds to mature flowers. (d) Stage-specific expression in flowers at the late stage of floral maturation, including immature (pre-thermogenesis), female (strong thermogenesis), bisexual (weak thermogenesis), and male (post-thermogenesis) stages. (e) Stage-specific expression in leaves of juvenile (Juv)- and reproductive (Rep)-phase plants. To prevent saturation, semi-quantitative RT-PCR was analysed with different PCR cycles (Supplementary Fig. 7) and the appropriate numbers of PCR cycles were shown on the right side of each gel. The signals detected here were not from contaminated genomic DNA (Supplementary Fig. 8). In (c,e), potted plants were used to collect samples (Supplementary Fig. 9).