Table 1.

Analysis of variance for gene expression of ACS2 and ACS6 in the examined tissues (above ground plant tissues and roots) in the three examined time points (3, 7, and 14 days post-inoculation (dpi)). The analysis was based on the relative gene expression results (2^−ΔCt) of 3 technical repeats of three biological repeats.

	ACS2		ACS6
Source	df	F	df	F
Tissue	1	413.06 **	1	2.53
Time	2	90.09 **	2	118.14 **
Tissue × Time	2	7.29 *	2	46.80 **
Error	48		48
Total	54		54

The asterisks (*) and (**) denote significance at p < 0.01, and 0.001 levels, respectively, according to the F test; df: degrees of freedom; F: variance of the group means / mean of the within group variances.