Figure 7.

Induction of defence‐related genes in rice plants accumulating Pi in leaves on inoculation with Magnaporthe oryzae spores. (a) miR399 overexpressing (OE) plants grown under sufficient‐Pi conditions. Results obtained on lines L4 and L20 are shown (similar results were obtained for line L2). (b) Wild‐type (WT) plants that have been grown under high Pi supply. The expression values were normalized to the rice Ubiquitin 5 gene. Bars represent means of three biological replicates, each one from a pool of three different plants, ±SEM. In all the cases, the expression level in mock‐inoculated plants was set to 1.0