The invention provides a miRNA
reference gene in the opening and
senescence process of sweet
osmanthus petals and a primer and application of the miRNA
reference gene, and belongs to the field of
plant molecular biology. The
petal opening and
senescence process comprises S1 (the
pedicel period), S2 (the initial flowering period), S3 (the initial stage of full-bloom), S4 (the full-bloom period), S5 (the later stage of full-bloom) and S6 (the
petal falling period). According to the invention, 14 candidate
reference genes are screened, and the stability of the candidate genes is evaluated through five algorithms (
delta-CT, geNorm, NormFinder, BestKeeper and RefFinder), so that miRNA internal references, namely novel33 and ofr-miR395e, which are suitable for the opening and
senescence processes of the sweet-scented
osmanthus petals are obtained. According to the invention, the real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR primer of the internal reference is designed, the primer has strong specificity and high amplification efficiency, the detection efficiency of real-time fluorescent quantitative detection of sweet
osmanthus miRNA can be greatly improved, and the credibility of the detection result is improved.