Abstract Background Foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.] is an excellent crop known
for its superior level of drought tolerance across the world. Especially, less water is needed …

Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) has been widely used in gene
expression analyses due to its advantages of sensitivity, accuracy and high throughput. The …

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play important roles in miRNA function and transcriptional control.
However, little is known regarding circRNAs in the pear. In this study, we identified circRNAs …

The quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) approach has become a
widely used method to analyze expression patterns of target genes. The selection of an …

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is a famous medicinal plant with its dried roots having been
used as a traditional Chinese medicinal for more than 2000 years. Although its genome …

CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPKs) have been shown to regulate a variety of
environmental stress-related signalling pathways in plants. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) …

Abstract High-affinity K+ (HAK)/K+ uptake (KUP)/K+ transporters (KT) play crucial roles in the
regulation of cellular K+ levels. However, little is known about these genes in the Rosaceae …

Quantitative real-time reverse-transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR) has been frequently used for
detecting gene expression. To obtain reliable results, selection of suitable reference genes …

Reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) as the accurate and sensitive method is
use for gene expression analysis, but the veracity and reliability result depends on whether …

Increasing evidence shows that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in
developmental regulation and many other biological processes in plants. However …