Fig. 4

RT-qPCR results comparing 2^-ΔΔCT values between psyllid treatment groups: Control plants (solid white), Lso-free plants (white with black stripes), LsoB-infected plants (solid black), and LsoA-infected plants (grey with black stripes). Numbers listed above each column represent the average fpkm (fragments per kilobase of transcript per million reads) values calculated for the given treatment and target gene. Target DEGs were selected based on their expected relative expression levels between treatments: Heat shock cognate 70 kDa protein 1 (HSP70–1; Solyc06g076020.3) was expected to be up-regulated in LsoA-infected plants and expressed at even higher levels in LsoB-infected plants, jasmonate ZIM-domain protein 2 was expected to be up-regulated in Lso-infected plants (NtJAZ2; Solyc12g009220.2), ribosomal protein L2 was expected to be down-regulated in infected plants (rL2; Solyc10g047090.2), glutaredoxin-C6 was expected to be down-regulated in infected plants (GRXC6; Solyc11g069940.1), and Ycf1 was expected to be down-regulated in infected plants (Ycf1; Solyc12g035550.1). An asterisk denotes a significant difference with control plants