Any tips for cross-species hetrologous transcriptome genomics / gene specific reverse transcriptase-PCR based semi-quantitative gene expression study?

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Using Arabidopsis as the baseline whose genomic information is available and a crucifer close relative whose transcriptome is to be analyzed

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