Figure 6

Lesion lengths showing xylem discoloration caused by Fusarium kuroshium, Fusarium decemcellulare, and a sterilized toothpick (control). (a,b) show measurement directions (L: longitudinal; T: tangential) of lesion length. If lesions between inoculation sites were connected, the data were not used. (c,d) show box (25–75% data range) and whisker (values within 1.5 interquartile range) plots of the length in longitudinal and tangential directions, respectively. Mean lengths with different letters are significantly different among treatments at the 1% level; Kruskal–Wallis test with Bonferroni correction; SD standard deviation.