Table 5.
Infection rate of BYDV-PAV and WDV after mock inoculation.
DaMI* | Mock inoculation | Infection rate (ISi ) (%) (Mean ± SE**) | ||||||
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BYDV-PAV | WDV | |||||||
2 | No† | 88.33 a | ± | 7.26 | 92.75 a | ± | 3.66 | |
Yes | 78.04 a | ± | 8.54 | 81.08 a | ± | 8.06 | ||
5 | No† | 64.90 ab | ± | 11.55 | 86.57 a | ± | 11.03 | |
Yes | 65.78 ab | ± | 10.99 | 66.57 a | ± | 18.79 | ||
9 | No† | 36.18 b | ± | 7.66 | 76.57 a | ± | 7.34 | |
Yes | 49.61 b | ± | 5.44 | 55.10 a | ± | 13.15 | ||
12 | No† | 52.65 ab | ± | 1.45 | 59.31 a | ± | 5.38 | |
Yes | 61.86 ab | ± | 4.60 | 57.92 a | ± | 14.07 |
*: Days of infection of source plants.
†: Data illustrated in Figure 3B .
**: Standard error.
For a virus species, letters (in bold for WDV) illustrate a significant difference in viral load between singly and co-infected plants.