Heterozygous line showing no expression in qPCR ?

10 October 2018 0 7K Report

I ordered Arabidopsis mutants from ABRC and found that one of the mutant is hetrozygous (confirmed by genotyping), later when I performed qPCR, I did not see any amplification of that particular gene (undetermined values). What can be the reason ?

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