The wild-type Arabidopsis used in the experiment is the Colombian ecological type, red beets are Detroit red beets preserved in the laboratory and cultivated in greenhouses.The seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana and red beet seeds (B.vulgaris var.crucenta) were sterilised by dipping in ethanol (75%) for 1 min and successively in NaClO (5%) solution for 10 min and then washed at least 5–10 times with sterilized water. Then the seeds were placed on Murashige and Skoog (MS) agar medium for germination.
