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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2018 May 17;360(6393):1126–1129. doi: 10.1126/science.aar4142

Fig. 4. Transferred host sRNAs silence fungal virulence genes and suppress fungal pathogenicity.

Fig. 4.

(A and B) compared with the wild type. Relative lesion sizes were measured at 2 days after infection. (C) Fungal target genes of transferred sRNAs were derepressed in B. cinerea collected from the dcl2/3/4 and rdr6 mutants. (D) Mutant B. cinerea strains with deletions in the targets of transferred host sRNAs displayed reduced virulence. Relative lesion sizes were measured at 3 days after infection. In (B) and (D), error bars indicate the SD over 10 leaves. The asterisk indicates significant difference (ANOVA Dunnett’s multiple comparisons; P < 0.01).