Fig. 6.

Comparison of the Pseudomonas fuscovaginae wild type strain UPB0736 (red) and its fuscopeptin mutant (orange). When 7 weeks old, Kitaake rice plants were inoculated with P. fuscovaginae by injecting a bacterial solution. Disease was evaluated at 2, 4 and 8 days post inoculation (DPI) (a). The levels of abscisic acid (b), jasmonate (c), auxin (d) and salicylic acid (e) were measured in sheath samples collected at 1, 2, 4 and 8 DPI. Black boxplots show the results of the healthy control. All boxplots represent the median with the first and third quartile, the whiskers show the minimum and maximum values. Boxplots marked different letters are significantly different (Wilcoxon rank sum test, n = 25, α = 0.05 (a) or ANOVA, Dunn’s or Mood’s Median test, n = 5, α = 0.05 (b, c, d, e))