Figure 7
Infection assays of papaya fruits with P. palmivora wild-type (WT) strain and Ppal15kDa mutants. (a) Symptoms of representative papaya fruits infected with WT and mutant strains side-by-side at 4 dpi. (b) The average lesion diameters at 4 dpi on papaya fruits inoculated as in (a). The histograms correspond to the mean ± standard errors (SE) of lesion diameters calculated from independent fruits (n = 13). Three asterisks (***) indicate statistically significant differences (P-value < 0.001) between WT and the indicated Ppal15kDa mutant determined by paired t-test.
