Fig. 8

qRT-PCR expression patterns of both 14 DEGs and one hub genes detected in the RNA-Seq profiles of the control and the treatment. Three biological replicates are used for qRT-PCR validation. Significant differences between means were made using One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD post hoc test. Error bars represented standard deviations from three independent biological replicates. The asterisk (_*) stands for the levels of significant difference (*p value ≤0.05, **p value ≤0.01)