Fig. 1

The amount of smut pathogen in YC05–179 and ROC22 inoculated with Sporisorium scitamineum by TaqMan qRT-PCR analysis. The quantification of smut pathogen were calculated with the equation of the linear regression line. All data points were means ± standard error (n = 3). Different lowercase letters indicated a significant difference between resistant and susceptible genotypes, as determined by the Duncan’s new multiple range test (p < 0.05). YC05–179, smut-resistant genotype; ROC22, smut-susceptible genotype