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Table 1 Effectiveness of PDS silencing in the spikes of Xiaoyan 6 plants inoculated with BSMV:PDS at three different development stages

From: Virus-induced gene-silencing in wheat spikes and grains and its application in functional analysis of HMW-GS-encoding genes

Development stage

Inoculation location

No. of plants inoculateda

No. of plants with photobleaching phenotypesb

Partial photobleaching

Complete photobleaching

Booting

Flag leaf

10

8

1

Spike

10

2

0

Heading

Flag leaf

10

4

4

Spike

10

0

9

Flowering

Flag leaf

10

0

0

Spike

10

0

10

  1. a This experiment was conducted with three independent biological replicates, ten plants were inoculated for each condition.
  2. b Numbers of plants with partial or complete photobleaching were reproducible in three biological replicates.