Figure 2.

Symptomatology caused by CEVd, TCDVd, and PSTVd by agro- and transcript-inoculations in eggplant and tomato. Representative images of Solanum melongena cv Black Beauty (A) and Solanum lycopersicum cv Rutgers (B) of mock and viroid-inoculated plants using agro-inoculation (upper images; A) and transcript (lower images; T). (C) Quantitation of mean leaf size in agro- and transcript-inoculated eggplant plants. (D) Quantitation of stem height in agro- and transcript-inoculated tomato plants. Data correspond to the mean plants ± SD of at least three independent replicates. Data were analyzed using a Mann–Whitney test and different letters indicate significant differences (p ≤ 0.05).