Figure 2.

Photoreceptor and photolyase genes are expressed in Ustilago maydis axenic cultures. Shown are means and standard errors (n = 3) of Ct‐values of indicated transcripts from qRT‐PCR experiments. Samples were prepared from U. maydis wild‐type cells grown in liquid culture either in darkness (black bars) or treated with blue light (471 nm; fluence rate 30 μmol m⁻² sec⁻¹) for 60 min (gray bars). Negative controls (white bars) included H₂O instead of RNA. cyc1 (cyclophilin, um03726) served as internal control. For abbreviations of genes see Fig. 1 and text.