Figure 6.

Morphology of disease lesions of sugarcane leaf blight (SLB) and expression dynamics of LecRK gene in hybrids in response to SLB. (a) Morphology of disease lesions of SLB in early and medium to late disease stages of resistant ROC22 and susceptible FN12-047. (b) The distribution of conidia of Stagonospora tainanensis on the surface of disease lesions of SLB. (c) Heatmap of differentially expressed profiles and fold change (display as log (FC)) of LecRK genes responding to SLB in healthy, early and medium to late stages (abbreviated HS, ES and MLS, respectively). Genes marked with blue squares represent shared differentially expressed LecRKs between sugarcane hybrids resistant ROC22 and susceptible FN12-047. Characters “LecRK” were deleted from each gene name in the figure to save space.