The flavonoid quercetin is one of the main active ingredients in Chinese medicinal herb, Euphorbia maculata. At present, there are few reports on quercetin biosynthesis gene, and real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) is one of the common methods in gene research. But it is a prerequisite for relative quantitative RT-qPCR to have suitable reference genes. In order to obtain a suitable reference gene, this experiment was based on the results of transcriptome sequencing, EmSE, EmUBC, EmGDI1, EmLSM12, EmGBP, EmSYP22, EmTRI1, EmRSZ21, EmRPL7 and EmUBQ obtained by our research group in the early stage were selected as candidate reference genes. RT-qPCR was used to detect the expression of the candidate reference genes in roots, stems, leaves and fruits of E. maculata during vegetative and reproduction stages. The expression stability of the candidate genes was analyzed using geNorm, NormFinder and BestKeeper software. The results of different software were integrated and ranked by the geometric mean method. The ranking was in the order EmGDI1>EmUBQ>EmSE>EmUBC>EmLSM12=EmGBP>EmTRI1>EmSYP22>EmRSZ21=EmRPL7. EmC4H, a key enzyme gene in quercetin biosynthesis, was analyzed using EmGDI1 as the reference gene. The difference of EmC4H expression in different tissues at different stages was consistent with the trend of transcriptome sequencing. The reference gene EmGDI1 developed in this study could be used as a suitable reference gene for tissue-specific expression studies of different stages of E. maculata.
| 科 Family | 属数 Number of genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) | 属 Genus | 种数 Number of species | 占总种数比例 Percentage of total species (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |