Fig. 1.

The expression of autophagy-related genes (ATGs) in inoculated leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana after BaMV inoculation. (A) RT-PCR of the mRNA expression of ATGs and actin (as the internal control) in mock control (M) and BaMV-inoculated (I) leaves at 3 d post-inoculation (dpi). (B) Real-time quantitative RT-PCR of the relative expression of ATGs quantified from three independent experiments with at least three individual plants for each experiment; the expression of mock-inoculated plants was set to 100%. Data are means (±SD). Significant differences were determined using Student’s t-test: *P<0.05; **P<0.01; ***P<0.001.