Fig. 6

Correlation of cassava responses to whiteflies with other biotic stresses. a Box-and-whisker plots overlaid with all data points displaying mean PR gene responses to treatments. Whiskers indicate the interquartile range multiplied by two. Total number of genes for each treatment is below each plot. Outliers (red) were identified and removed prior to correlation analyses in panel b. b Pearson correlation analyses of DEGs responding to whiteflies vs. bacteria (19 genes), CMV (25 genes) or CBSV (21 genes) were performed. Only four genes were identified in the whitefly-mealybug and whitefly-fungus interactions; therefore, these interactions were not included in these analyses