Fig. 8: Plants overexpressing miR156 influence the expression of SPL genes in WT plants sharing the same hydroponic medium.
From: Exogenous miRNAs induce post-transcriptional gene silencing in plants
a, Presence and quantity of miR156 in the external medium of WT and OxmiR156 plants. b, miR156 expression level in WT plants, OxmiR156 plants, WT plants cocultivated with OxmiR156 plants in the same hydroponic tray and OxmiR156 plants cocultivated with WT plants in the same hydroponic tray. c, SPL9 and SPL3 expression level in WT plants, OxmiR156 plants, WT plants cocultivated with OxmiR156 plants in the same hydroponic tray and OxmiR156 plants cocultivated with WT plants in the same hydroponic tray. d, Flowering of WT plants is delayed when cocultivated with OxmiR156 plants. In the boxplots, dots represent single data points, whiskers denote minimum/maximum values, the box defines the interquartile range, the centre represents the median and box bounds represent the lower and upper quartiles. Welch’s t-test (two-sided) values are shown. Different letters (a,b,c) refer to differences in ANOVA tests (Tukey’s post‐hoc test, P < 0.05). a, n = 6 biological replicates; b,c, n = 5 biological replicates; d, n = 4 biological replicates, each represented by the mean value from a tray with 30 individual plants.
