Fig. 7

The shading effects on gene expression in tea buds analysed by both RNA-seq and qRT-PCR. R, relevance factor of gene expression between RNA-Seq and qRT-PCR data by the double factor correlation test in SPSS 13.0 software. C4h, C8h, C2d and C14d indicate samples collected at 4h, 8h, 2d and 14d in the Control treatment. S4h, S8h, S2d and S14d indicate samples collected at 4h, 8h, 2d and 14d in the shading treatment. Data shown are the average mean ± SE of three replicates (n = 3). *Significant differences comparing the Control treatment at each time point according to one-way ANOVA and a Fisher’s LSD test at the 5% level (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01). Different letters indicate statistical significance among time points for the Control (a, b, c, d) and Shading (e, f, g, h) treatments in qRT-PCR using one-way ANOVA and a Fisher’s LSD test at the 5% significance level