Figure 3. KO-nudx8 mutant is more susceptible to infection against bacterial and oomycete pathogen than WT plants.

A) KO-nudx8 mutant is more susceptible to Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis Emwa1 infection than the WT (three-fold change). Sporangiophore (SPP) count after Hpa Emwa1 infection at dawn. Ten-day-old Arabidopsis plants were inoculated (5×10⁵ spores per mL) with asexual spore suspension of Hpa. Disease phenotypes were scored seven days post-infiltration (dpi) after trypan blue staining. B) KO-nudx8 plants are more susceptible to the bacterial pathogen Psm ES4326 than WT (0.6 fold change Log₁₀). Infected tissue was collected three days after infection. All experiments were carried out with at least three biological replicates. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals of log-transformed data (n = 7). Asterisks indicates significant difference according to Student's t test (P<0.05).