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. 2017 May 15;7:1908. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02017-3

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Comparison of virus accumulation in protoplasts of Nicotiana tabacum BY2 cells with filtered untreated or heat inactivated virus inocula. Quantitative Reverse transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR) data from Nicotiana tabacum BY2 cells were used to obtain absolute quantification of viral RNA at T0 and T48 time points with heat-inactivated (purple for T0 and red for T48) or untreated (green for T0, yellow for T48) viral inocula. In Panel A: Quantification graph of PaTV1 confirmed the ability to replicate when the viral purification is untreated, whereas when inactivated before transfection the final RNA amount at T48 (red bar) was lower than at T0. In panels C quantification of the Partitivirus Penicillium aurantiogriseum partitivirus 1 (PaPV1): similarly to PaTV1, PaPV1 can replicate in untreated biological replicates whereas the RNA accumulation level decreased when thermally inactivated suspension was used for transfection. Panels B,D,E and F show data for the other viruses: none of them displays a statistically significant increase in virus RNA load. *P < 0.05 **P < 0.01 and ***P < 0.001.