. 2018 Feb 15;9:152. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00152

Table 1.

Histological analysis of TaMAPK4 knockdown leaves responding to infection by Pst race 23.

Treatment	24 hpi	48 hpi	24 hpi	48 hpi	120 hpi
	Hyphal length (μm)		Hyphal branches		Uredinial area (μm²)
BSMV-γ	0.24^a± 0.12	0.33^a± 0.05	1.34^a± 0.18	1.65^a± 0.14	0.21^a± 0.08
BSMV-TaMAPK4	0.34^b± 0.07	0.44^b± 0.08	1.53^b± 0.11	1.93^b± 0.23	0.29^b± 0.05

Leaves were inoculated with BSMV-γ, or BSMV-TaMAPK4, followed by inoculation with Pst CYR23. hpi, hours post-inoculation.

Pst hyphal branches, hyphal length and uredinial area were measured for at least 50 infection sites.

Numbers within the same column marked with different superscript letters are significantly different according to one-way ANOVA (P < 0.05). Results were obtained in three independent biological replicates.