Fig. 8.

Principal component analysis (PCA) revealing the relationship of pleotropic impacts of growth with virulence traits on B. bassiana mutants and wild-type (WT) strain. A) Biplot consisting of two principal components corresponding to 93.7% of total data variance from 11 meaningful phenotypic variables (arrows with their respective contribution levels) that clearly separate the three B. bassiana mutants (ΔBbsmr1 #3, #5 and #38) from the WT strain (dots colored by strain). B) Heatmap based on Manhatttan distance and Wald method for clustering the variables and strains using dendrograms