Figure 3

qRT-PCR confirmation of relative changes in transcript abundance of the exocyst subunit in the MAPK-OE and MAPK-RNAi transgenic roots first shown by RNA-seq analysis. In cases in which a numerical value of differential expression was obtained in the RNA-seq analyses (not necessarily ± 1.5-fold) and the p value was < 0.05 (p < 0.05), qRT-PCR was employed to confirm the relative change in transcript abundance of the exocyst gene of interest. These results were compared to the RPS21 control employing the 2−ΔΔCT method31,69,70. For a change in relative transcript abundance to be considered statistically significant, a minimum cutoff of ± 1.5-fold was set, and p < 0.05. The p values for the replicate qRT-PCR analyses were calculated through Student’s t test70. Error bars represent the standard deviation. Please refer to the Materials and Methods (“Functional analysis of a MAPK-induced exocyst genes that were not expressed in the syncytium” section) for details of the analysis.