Fig. 6: Expression of the M. domestica genes involved in plant immunity and plant defense.

Heatmaps reporting the expression of the M. domestica genes known to be involved in plant immunity and plant defense response during interaction with the fungus P. expansum (a), with the BCA P. terrestris (b), and with both of them (c). Genes involved in pattern-triggered immunity (PTI), effector-triggered immunity (ETI), ethylene and jasmonic acid pathways, genes encoding heat shock proteins, and calmodulin and calmodulin-related genes were identified as described in Materials and Methods, and searched in M. domestica genome to identify their orthologs; the name of the A. thaliana ortholog is used where available.