Figure 7.

Functional characterization of three lncRNAs using the VIGS system. (a) The expression pattern of the three lncRNAs detected by qRT‐PCR. (b) Relative transcript levels of candidate lncRNAs in the silenced and control plants confirmed the effective knockdown of the targeted lncRNA. (c) Representative seeds with attached fibre from the VIGS experiment, showing the different phenotypes in the silenced lines compared with the control lines. The values shown are the means ± standard deviation of n = 3 replicates. GhUB7 was used as the reference gene.