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. 2021 Jan 12;11:627880. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.627880

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

PDS gene silencing in N. benthamiana by SYNV amiRNA vector. (A) Schematic representation of amiRNA expression and the base pairing between amiRPDS and the target PDS mRNA. m7G: cap; An: poly(A) tails. miR, microRNA. (B) Phenotypes of plants infected with SYNV and SYNV-amiRPDS at 30 dpsi. (C) End-point stem-loop RT-PCR analysis of mature amiRPDS levels in systemically infected leaf tissue at 30 dpsi. The actin gene was used as an internal control. (D) qRT-PCR analysis of PDS mRNA levels in upper leaf tissues of infected plants at 30 dpsi. Data are the means of three infected plants (n = 3). Error bars show the standard deviation (± SD). Double asterisk (**) indicate significant difference at p < 0.01 according to Student’s t-test.