Table 2. Presence of germinated V. inaequalis conidia on leaf surface of resistant plants.
| No. of leaf samples*
|
No. of conidia
|
Fungal development†
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Line or cv. | Average per leaf sample | Total | α | β | γ | |
| Ga2-2 | 6 | 97 | 582 | 55 | 8 | 519 |
| Ga2-5 | 4 | 137 | 548 | 0 | 1 | 547 |
| Ga2-8 | 4 | 100 | 401 | 0 | 0 | 401 |
| Ga2-21 | 3 | 80 | 240 | 0 | 0 | 240 |
| Enterprise | 1 | 54 | 54 | 10 | 33 | 11 |
This table does not contain the data from susceptible plants because on Gala and transgenic Ga2-7 leaf samples the new stroma and conidiophores were too dense, making conidia counting impossible.
*
For each plant, one leaf section (≈1.5 × 1 cm) was examined.
†
Fungal development for each conidium was defined according to the following classes: α, isolated areas of stroma with sporulating conidiophores; β, primary stroma expanding no more than ≈40 μm; and γ, no fungal development beyond that of appressoria and penetration peg.