Table 1.

Colonization of tomato roots by S. indica wild type (wt), the empty vector-carrying (evV) and the SiTPS-overexpressing (ovII) mutants. The colonization ability of each strain was estimated using the ratio of fungal DNA (DNAf) to plant DNA (DNAp) at 2 and 11 days post inoculation (dpi). No statistical differences were observed in between the different treatments (one-way ANOVA in R-studio). Standard error of the mean (SEM) is also presented (n = 3).

S. indica Strain	2 dpi DNAf/DNAp ± SEM	11 dpi DNAf/DNAp ± SEM
wt	0.0044 ± 0.0003	0.0324 ± 0.0026
evV	0.0052 ± 0.0001	0.0468 ± 0.0102
ovII	0.0054 ± 0.0008	0.0301 ± 0.0040