FIG 2.

Endophytic population change of S. enterica serovars Senftenberg, Dublin, Montevideo, Enteritidis, and Infantis in the leaves of basil plants immediately and 10 and 20 days after passive apoplast inoculation. Bars represent the means of the log₁₀-transformed population sizes for five replicate leaves sampled from five replicate pots, as well as the SEM. Different letters above the bars indicate significant differences in Salmonella population size within each incubation time by Tukey’s multiple-comparison test (P < 0.05).