Fig. 2.

Relative expression of the potential endophyte-regulated markers and of defense-related genes in Nipponbare roots. Expression values (from three independent experiments) were normalised by the non-inoculated condition and error bars represent 95% confidence interval of the mean. The color code is as follows: blue, for strains originally isolated from rice rhizosphere or tissues; green, for strains isolated from wheat; orange, for strains isolated from maize; purple, for strains isolated from other plants (Table 1). The sharp sign (#) and the delta sign (δ) indicate that the corresponding gene was described as being respectively induced or repressed by a jasmonate treatment in rice roots (TENOR database) (color figure online)