Figure 2

Effect of HsPdi silencing on H. schachtii parasitism. Figures show susceptibility parameters representing the parasitism of the nematodes that were soaked in the HsPdi dsRNA compared with those nematodes which were soaked in GFP dsRNA as a negative control (A) Average number of males, females and total nematodes developed on Arabidopsis Col-0 plant. (B) Average sizes of syncytia at 13 DAI (C) Average sizes of females at 13 DAI. (D) Average sizes of cysts at 45 DAI. (E) Average numbers of eggs inside cysts. Data are based on three independent experiments. Each bar represents the mean ± standard error of n > 35. Asterisk marks indicate significant differences based on Student’s t-test (P < 0.05).