Fig. 3

Hormone-associated differentially expressed genes (DEG) identified across time points and female floral tissues. Each box shows the number of DEG belonging to each hormone group expressed in stigma (S), transmitting (T) and base (B) tissues at 24H, 48H, 72H, 5D and 7D after inoculation with Claviceps purpurea, H = hours. D = days. The asterisks show the outliers beyond the upper and lower quantiles. The solid line is a regression line fitted to the data. The dotted line represents the fold change at − 1 and + 1, with genes considered not to be significantly differentially expressed if their fold change values fall between the dotted lines