Fig. 1

The post-gene silencing bioinformatics (post-GSB) scheme. This describes the two steps of the model as described in the scheme. The first step consists of producing experimental data sets and using the closeness scores between plants to extract the set of differentially infected plants to be considered for further analyses. The second step initially focuses on statistical analyses checking whether there is any difference between the two data sets: wild type and npr1 gene mutant plants. If this difference is significant, then the Gene Ontology process annotation based functional analysis is performed to identify proteins, enriched processes and pathways contributing to the NPR1-based plant defence mechanisms