Fig. 2

Small RNA population identified from B. napus genome in response to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum infection. A A flow chart showing total, Dicer-derived and highly expressed loci with a major RNA reads of = > 100 reads, as predicted by ShortStack, and differentially expressed loci identified from DESeq2. B Histogram of read sizes from upregulated and downregulated sRNA loci, y axis depicts the percentage of reads in each category (upregulated or down-regulated) and the x axis read length in nucleotides. C Histogram of read sizes showing percentage of reads (y axis) of each size class (x axis) that had each of the four nucleotides (AGCU) in their 5′ position for upregulated loci (left) and downregulated loci (right)