Table 3. The effector genes differentially expressed during the pre-infection stages of Phytophthora capsici.
| Differentially expressed genesb | ||||||||||
| Pair GC - MY | Pair ZO - MY | Pair GC - ZO | ||||||||
| Gene category | Totala | GC | MY | No change | ZO | MY | No change | GC | ZO | No change |
| RXLR | 32 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 25 | 22 | 5 | 5 |
| Crinker (CRN) | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| Elicitin | 24 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 5 |
| Transglutaminase elicitor | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| NLP | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| CBEL | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Enzyme inhibitor | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Total | 98 | 53 | 12 | 33 | 33 | 5 | 60 | 47 | 21 | 30 |
MY, vegetative growth mycelia; ZO, zoospores; GC, germinating cysts with germ tubes. Crinker (CRN), crinking and necrosis-inducing protein; NLP, NPP1-like protein; CBEL, cellulose binding elicitor lectin.
a
Total number of P. capsici effector genes, homologous to P. infestans genes.
b
Genes had a FDR < 0.05 and P < 0.01.