Fig. 12

Expression profiling of GmPME genes in soybean flower buds from cytoplasmic male sterile line NJCMS1A and its maintainer NJCMS1B. a Expression profiles of GmPME genes in soybean flower buds from NJCMS1A and NJCMS1B. b The quantitative RT-PCR analyses of eight selected representative GmPME genes from the Group I and Group II clades. The results of quantitative RT-PCR were normalized to the GmActin housekeeping gene. The error bars indicated the standard deviations and the values in plots were corresponding to the mean ± standard deviation (SD) of three independent biological replicates. Asterisks demonstrated that the selected GmPME genes were significantly up- or down-regulated compared with those in soybean flower buds from NJCMS1A (* P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, Student’s t-test)