FIGURE 6.

Reduced basal resistance against virulent Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) DC3000 observed in the miR472 target genes mutant lines. (a) Bacterial growth in 5‐week‐old Arabidopsis thaliana plants from T‐DNA insert lines of miR472 target genes and Col‐0 wild‐type (WT) infiltrated with Pst DC3000 (EV) (OD₆₀₀ = 0.0001), the T‐DNA insert lines being SALK_060360C (At1g15890), SALK_061926C (At1g61300), SALK_015294C (At1g12220), SALK_025605C (At5g43740), and SALK_013860C (At5g43730). The data are means and SD (n = 24). The LSD test was performed to determine the significant differences between T‐DNA insert lines and Col‐0 wild‐type (WT). Letters above the bars indicate statistically significant differences between treatments (LSD test, p < .05). (b) Disease symptoms caused by Pst DC3000 (empty vector, EV) infection in different T‐DNA insert lines and Col‐0 WT plants. A representative plant from each treatment was photographed at 5 days post‐inoculation. All the experiments were done in three independent biological replicates and similar results were obtained