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. 2016 Jan 5;14(1):e1002332. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002332

Fig 3. Silencing of the germacrene A synthase gene ToGAS1 increases M. melolontha feeding.

Fig 3

A. In a nonchoice experiment, TA-G-deficient lines lost more main and side root mass than control lines after 10 d of feeding by M. melolontha relative to undamaged control plants of each accession (“relative root mass”) (Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test, n = 36). B. TA-G-deficient T. officinale (top bar) and carrot seedlings painted with latex from TA-G-deficient T. officinale (lower bar) were preferred by M. melolontha over controls after three hours of feeding (binomial test). Diagrams show pooled data of all possible pairwise comparisons of individual TA-G-deficient and control lines. Numbers inside bars refer to number of larvae. C. M. melolontha consumed more root mass from TA-G-deficient T. officinale seedlings compared to control seedlings in a choice experiment after 4 h (paired Student’s t test, n = 81). Underlying data can be found in S1 Data.