Table 1.

Membrane trafficking genes significantly affect basal resistance on transient‐induced gene silencing (TIGS)

Target gene (TIGR or GenBank accession of the full‐length gene)	Relative susceptibility index (number of independent experiments)†
Empty TIGS vector	100%
HvMLO (Z83834)	26% (n = 29)*** , †
HvARFA1b/c (TA29770_4513)	169% (n = 9)*
HvCOG3 (AK249208)	174% (n = 20)*
HvEXO70F‐like (AK362856)	173% (n = 7)**

TIGR, Institute for Genomic Research.

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 (one‐sided Student's t‐test against 100%).

†Each experiment contained an empty vector control and an HvMLO‐TIGS positive control. The number of MLO‐TIGS experiments differs from the sum of all experiments in the table (n = 36) because MLO was used as a common positive control for more than one test construct in some of the experiments.