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. 2020 Dec 16;11:597665. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.597665

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Overexpression of NbHMG1/2a enhances systemic movement of BaMV. (A) Twenty-four-day-old N. benthamiana plants were co-agroinfiltrated with pKBG and pBin-HA-mCherry or pBin-HA-mCherry-HMG. Samples were collected from inoculated and systemic leaves at 4, 5, and 6 dpi. Upper panels are Northern blots for BaMV, with rRNA used as a loading control. Lower panels are protein blots of BaMV CP and HA-tag to detect HA-mCherry (30 kDa) and HA-mCherry-HMG (45 kDa). Ponceau S was used as a loading control. The experiment was conducted with three biological replicates, which generated similar results. Values below Northern blots represent average accumulation of BaMV genomic RNA from three biological replicates ± SD. (B) Relative expression of endogenous NbHMG1/2a and the overexpressed gene NbHMG1/2a-mCherry in inoculated and systemic leaves of NbHMG1/2a-overexpressing plants based on RTqPCR. According to one-sided student t-test, asterisk indicates significant difference for the expression of NbHMG1/2a-mCherry relative to the endogenous NbHMG1/2a, with ** representing P < 0.01. Actin was used as an internal control. Error bars represent the standard deviation from three biological replicates.