Fig. 11
Validation of RNA-seq results by RT-qPCR. Expression levels of 3 genes involved in sucrose synthesis and metabolism pathways were detected by RT-qPCR. R2 represents the correlation coefficient value between the two platforms. The numbers in the scale bar stand for RPKM values in RNA-seq and ΔΔCt in qRT-PCR, which were used to evaluate the correlation (R2). Primers are listed in (Additional file 9: Table S2)