Figure 1.
Watermelon plants grafted onto watermelon (Wm/Wm) or onto bottle gourd (Wm/BG) and squash (Wm/Sq) at the two true-leaf stage.
Figure 2.
Sequence length distribution in Wm/Wm, Wm/BG and Wm/Sq.
Table 1.
Reads abundance of various classification of small RNAs in Wm/Wm, Wm/BG and Wm/Sq.
Table 2.
Conserved miRNAS in watermelon.
Figure 3.
RNA secondary structure of the hairpin forming precursors of cla-miR21, cla-miR52, cla-miR72, cla-miR73 and cla-miR79.
The putative mature miRNA sequences are shaded in green. Nucleotide positions are numbered starting from 5′ end of the precursor sequence.
Figure 4.
Expression analysis of miRNAs by RT-qPCR.
RT-qPCR confirming the express pattern of miRNAs.
Figure 5.
Comparison of expression patterns of miRNAs identified between Wm/Wm and Wm/BG (A) as well as Wm/Wm and Wm/Sq (B).
Table 3.
Different expressed known miRNAs identified in watermelon grafted onto bottle gourd and squash rootstocks.