Figure 6

qRT-PCR confirmation of the OE of syncytium-expressed exocyst genes and RNAi of these genes through gene cassettes in transgenic roots. The results were compared to those in the RPS21 control employing the 2−ΔΔCT method31,69,70. A minimum cutoff of ± 1.5-fold was set, and p < 0.05. *Statistically significant. 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.