Table 2. Number of pots with Exserohilum leaf spots out of the total number of pots with plants inoculated with strains of Exserohilum or Bipolaris at six days after inoculation.

Plant type	C3 plant	C3 plant	C4 plants	C4 plants	C4 plants	C4 plants	+/total strains	+/total strains	+/total strains
Grass species	Rye grass	Rye grass	Bahia grass	Bahia grass	Stilt grass	Stilt grass	All grasses	All grasses	All grasses
Exserohilum strains	Trial1	Trial2	Trial1	Trial2	Trial1	Trial2	Trial1	Trial2	Both trials
E. rostratum P2	2/10	11/12	2/10	10/12	6/63	12/12	10/26	33/36 x6	43/62
E. rostratum C	3/10	12/12	4/9	9/12	6/6	12/12	13/25	33/36 x	46/61
Bipolaris sp.	1/10	12/12	3/10	5/12	6/6	12/12	10/26	29/36 y	39/62
Total	6/30 b4	35/36 A5	9/29 b	24/36 B	18/18 a	36/36 A	33/77	95/108	128/185

¹First trial had five replications (two pots per replication per treatment).

²Second trial had four replications (three pots per replication per treatment).

³Seeds of stilt grass had low germination; therefore, total number of plants are less for stilt grass than rye grass and bahia grass.

⁴Different lower case letters indicate significant differences between plant species in the first trial (Chi² tests  = 32.1, P<0.001).

⁵Different upper case letters indicate significant differences between plant species in the second trial (Chi² tests  = 23.3, P<0.001).

⁶Different lower case letters indicate significant differences between pathogen strains in the second trial (Chi² tests  = 84, P<0.001). No significant differences between the isolates were observed in the first trial.