FIGURE 4.

The SynCom-inoculated DKB177 plants displayed lower T_leaf than uninoculated plants. (A) The hybrid DKB177 showed a low T_leaf when inoculated with SynCom, especially in periods when the air temperature was high. The standard deviation is shown as the background for air temperature and both treatments. (B) T_leaf of uninoculated plants reaches a peak of 3.23°C higher at 106 DAS (inset from panel A). (C) The difference between T_leaf of inoculated and uninoculated plants (ΔT_leaf), rounded every 30 min over time, revealed consistency in the high temperature presented by uninoculated DKB177. Values were displayed above the x-axis when T_leaf of inoculated plants is higher than T_leaf of uninoculated plants or below the x-axis when T_leaf of uninoculated plants is higher than T_leaf of inoculated plants, and colored in blue or red, respectively, when significantly different (P ≤ 0.05). Areas filled with light gray denote not statistically significant differences. The sums of areas in the graph above and below the x-axis were considered only for statistically significant differences. See Supplementary Figure 8 for the entire analyzed period. T_leaf, leaf temperature; ΔT_leaf, difference of T_leaf; aau, arbitrary area units; DAS, days after sowing.