Fig 1.
Experimental design and sample collection (A) and small RNA profiles in sweet cherry scions (B).
Table 1.
Summary of small RNA sequencing reads.
Table 2.
Metrics of the representative transcriptome of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L. 'Tieton').
Table 3.
The number and fraction (%) of sRNAs in sweet cherry scions and potential scion-to-rootstock transferred sRNAs.
Fig 2.
Summary of sRNAs (A) and gene networks of overrepresented sRNAs in bud tissues of sweet cherry scion 15 (Scion15) ‘Emperor Francis’ grafted on a ‘Gisela 6’ rootstock (RS15). The ontology file of GO_FULL in BiNGO and A. thaliana annotation were used as the references to identify overexpressed GO terms (P < 0.05). Bubble color indicates the P-value. Overrepresented sRNAs in “Biological process” (B) and “Molecular function” (C). No overrepresented GO terms are present in “Cellular component”.
Fig 3.
A diagram showing the pipeline of determining scion-to-rootstock transferred sRNAs.
Fig 4.
Profiles of putative sRNAs transferred from sweet cherry scions to rootstocks.
RS15_specific and RS19_specific are sRNAs found in the grafted rootstocks, RS15 and RS19, but absent in the ungrafted.