Figure 1.

Tomato leaves inoculated with 2 × 10⁴ conidia ml⁻¹. (a) i–iv inoculated leaves harvested at 14 dpi of MM-Cf-9, MM-Cf-5, and S. chilense population LA3111 and LA4330. (b) Microscopic pictures of bleached leaves (scale bar = 20 µm), after staining with ink (mycelium of pathogen indicated with red arrows). (c) Quantification of C. fulvum DNA load in pg/ng of plant DNA after 14 dpi of inoculation in three plants per MM control and five plants per S. chilense population. All the plants were evaluated in three technical replicates and each data point shows pathogen load per technical replicate. (Online version in version.)