FIGURE 9.

Wax profiles of bulliform‐enriched cuticles are diverse. (a) Total wax load of abaxial (BC‐free) and adaxial (BC‐containing) leaf surfaces, chloroform‐extracted from one leaf surface or the other, and measured by GC‐MS. (b) Relative content of wax classes in adaxial and abaxial tissues after normalization to overall wax load. (c) Total wax load of bulliform‐enriched mutants after chloroform extraction of both leaf surfaces. (d) Content of wax classes in bulliform‐enriched mutants was normalized to overall wax load. Values are given as means ± SD (n = 4 biological replicates per surface/genotype). Statistical analysis used two‐tailed unpaired Student's t‐test, with *p < .05, **p < .01, and ***p < .001