Table 3.

Reference genes ranking for Catimor 88 and Caturra inoculated with C. kahawae

Biotic stress	Catimor 88 (resistant)				Caturra (susceptible)
Gene	GeNorm	NormFinder	BestKeeper		GeNorm	NormFinder	BestKeeper
	M	SV	CV ± SD	r	M	SV	CV ± SD	r
IDE	0.640(1)	0.505(2)	2.82 ± 0.69(4)	0.790*	0.392(1/2)	0.358(3)	2.09 ± 0.50(2)	0.786*
14-3-3	0.669(2)	0.759(4)	2.59 ± 0.58(3)	0.689*	0.518(5)	0.517(5)	2.71 ± 0.61(5)	0.778*
RPL7	0.640(3)	0.626(3)	2.09 ± 0.49(1)	0.619*	0.502(4)	0.455(4)	1.86 ± 0.44(1)	0.684*
β-Tub9	0.795(4)	0.479(1)	2.34 ± 0.45(2)	0.726*	0.392(1/2)	0.322(1)	2.37 ± 0.46(4)	0.822*
S24	0.914(5)	0.807(6)	2.87 ± 0.59(5)	0.543	0.476(3)	0.341(2)	2.34 ± 0.48(3)	0.787*
UBQ9	0.870(6)	0.735(5)	1.75 ± 0.43(6)	0.303	0.648(7)	0.649(7)	2.61 ± 0.63(6)	0.642*
GAPDH	1.169(7)	1.779(7)	n.a	n.a	0.600(6)	0.580(6)	2.85 ± 0.58(7)	0.778*

SV. stability value; CV, coefficient of variance; SD, standard deviation of Cq value; r. Pearson coefficient of correlation; * p ≤ 0.05, p-value associated with the Pearson coefficient of correlation Ranking order is presented in parenthesis, n.a., not assigned.