Fig. 5

Transcriptional variation of C. lanatus clade V MLO genes in response to PM challenge. Data refer to leaves of the watermelon cultivar ‘Sugar Baby’, sampled at three different time points 5, 9 and 24 h post inoculation (HPI) with the PM fungus Podosphaera xanthii. For each time point, relative expression levels are normalized with respect to the housekeeping gene β-Actin and compared to non-inoculated controls. Standard error bars refer to a number of biological replicates ranging from three to four. Significant differences between the means were inferred using the Student’s t test for each time point (*p < 0.05)