Figure 3

Wound- and OS-inducible miRNAs. (A) Wound-inducible miRNAs. (B) OS-inducible miRNAs. Effects of W+W and W+OS on relative transcript abundance of N. attenuata miRNAs. For each sample, one leaf on the rosette of a 32-day-old WT plant was left untreated. (control, CTRL) or treated with wounding plus water (W+W) or wounding plus oral secretions of the larvae of the specialist M. sexta (W+OS) and harvested 1 h or 5 h post treatment. Shown are mean (± SE) levels of three replicates. Letters indicate significant differences (P < 0.05) in Fisher’s PLSD tests following an ANOVA.