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. 2014 Oct 17;9(10):e110664. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110664

Figure 8. Classification tree to discriminate among Verticillium wilt severity classes based on stress-related parameters.

Figure 8

Five stress-related parameters were used: Chlorophyll content (SPAD value), Ethylene production, Steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence (Fs), Leaf temperature minus air temperature (TlTa), and Photochemical reflectance index (PRI). Severity class indicates the severity of Verticillium wilt symptoms from Healthy control plants to Severe symptom development. For each terminal node the most prevalent Verticillium wilt severity class is indicated. The histogram for each terminal node represents the percentage of plants in each severity class (where H = Healthy, A = Asymptomatic, L = Low, M = Moderate and S = Severe symptoms). Data include a training set of 188 plants selected at random from a total set of 235 plants in two repeated experiments comprising all experimental combinations of soil temperature, olive cultivars, and non-inoculated control and Verticillium dahliae pathotypes of the study.