Table 4.

Influence of the silencing of LmHP1 and LmDIM5 on the expression of selected avirulence genes in axenic culture

Avirulence gene	Location†	Fold change (P value) in:‡
		Silenced mHP1	Silenced LmDIM5
AvrLm2	GC island	−5.7*	−9.6*
AvrLm1 a	AT‐HB	5.6*	16.9*
AvrLm4‐7 a	AT‐HB	8.8*	16.8*
AvrLmJ1	AT‐HB	4.2*	4.2
AvrLm6	AT‐HB	1.1	1.15
AvrLm11	AT‐HB	4.1*	2.9

†AT‐HB refers to AT isochores; GC islands refer to regions of more than 1 kb within AT isochores with a GC content of more than 50%.

‡Genes with fold change of less than −1.5 or more than 1.5 in transcript level and an associated P value of less than 0.05 (indicated by *) were considered to be significantly down‐ or up‐regulated in the silenced LmHP1 or silenced LmDIM5 transformants compared with the wild‐type v23.1.3 isolate in axenic culture.

^a AvrLm1 and AvrLm4‐7 data are from Soyer et al. (2014).