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. 2020 Jun 24;12(4):plaa029. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plaa029

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Expression of defence marker genes. Relative expression of defence marker genes in tomato plants infected with Meloidogyne incognita (Mi), infested with Spodoptera exigua (Se) or both (MiSe). Con = plants without herbivory. Expression values are normalized over the expression of the housekeeping gene (SIEF X14449) encoding for tomato elongation factor-1α. Box plots are mean (±SEM) expression values of Lipoxygenase D (LoxD); Leucine aminopeptidase A (LapA); abscisic acid-responsive Le4 (Le4); Basic-β-1-glucanase (GluB) per treatment (n = 5) measured at the nematodes’ invasion (A–D), galling (E–H) and reproduction (I–L) stages, respectively. Different lower-case letters above the box plots indicate significant differences in mean expression among treatments, determined via multiple comparisons Tukey’s HSD test after ANOVA at P ≤ 0.05.