FIGURE 3.

Influence of mycorrhization on phytohormones that regulate plant defence against T. urticae infestation. Content of the defense-related phytohormones OPDA, SA, Me-JA and JA in local leaves from mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal C. aurantium plants at 48 h post infestation. The levels were obtained from the non-targeted metabolome analysis by UPL-QTOFMS. Four treatments were compared: NM: non-mycorrhizal non-infested plants. AM: mycorrhizal non-infested plants. NM inf: non-mycorrhizal infested plants. AM inf: mycorrhizal infested plants. Three independent and two technical replicates were randomly performed. Significant factors (SF) indicate if the two independent factors: A (Arbuscular Mycorrhizal), M (Mite infestation) and/or their interaction I (A × M) were statistically significant (Two-way ANOVA, P < 0.05). The stats of analysis are provided in Supplementary Table 1. Data was presented as a mean of five replicates ± SD (n = 5).