Table 1. Tissue colonisation (%) and disease ratings for from the histopathogical microscopy of stained cross-sections of buds from 7 sugarcane varieties, four weeks after infection with teliospores of S. scitamineum via dip-inoculation and wound-inoculation.

Variety	Tissue colonisation %		Rating1		Sig
	Dip inoculation	Wound inoculation	Dip inoculation	Wound inoculation
Q117	6.8	63.7	2	3.8	**
Q208	2.9	91.9	1	4.7	**
ROC1	1.4	37.2	0.5	3.3	**
QN80-3425	1	9.7	0.5	2	ns
Q142	0.5	9.9	0	2.3	**
CP74-2005	0.5	4.1	0	1.5	ns
Q99	0.5	1.9	0	1	ns

Values are the mean of four replications. Values followed by the asterisks (**, in Sig column) in a row for tissue colonization% or ratings are significantly different according to Fisher’s protected least significant difference (LSD) test (P = 0.01), ns = not significant.

¹Rating: 0 –no colonisation, 1 –highly restricted colonisation, 2 –sparse colonisation <10%, 3 –distributed colonisation, 4 –colonisation greater than 50%, 5 –extensive profuse colonisation. The scores were averaged across four plants.

2 Sig

** = significantly different