Fig. 3

Reduced lesion sizes in bmr12 under water limitation. Plants grown under well-watered and water-limited conditions were inoculated with mycelia-coated toothpicks with either Fusarium thapsinum, Macrophomina phaseolina, or PDB. Peduncles were harvested in a destructive assay at 0, 3, and 13 days after inoculation (DAI). At 13 DAI, bmr12 plants displayed shorter lesions under water limitation in response to both stalk pathogens than under well-watered conditions. Asterisks denote significance at alpha = 0.05 using Fisher’s least squares means. Numbers above the boxes denote the number of plants (out of a maximum of eight) that were measured