Fig. 3

Transcriptome profiles and PCA of cassava’s whitefly infestation response. a-c Numbers of tDEGs in ECU72 and COL2246 and gDEGs during whitefly infestation. Number of up- and down-regulated genes (red and blue, respectively) are displayed and total number of DEGs for each treatment are provided. DEG expression values are provided in Additional file 17 and DEG counts in Additional file 18. DEGs had |log₂FC|≥ 1 and FDR ≤ 5%. d PCA analyses of detected genes prior to and during whitefly infestation (1, 7, 14 and 22 dpi) in ECU72 and COL2246. More variation among biological replicates was observed in COL2246 than in ECU72. Normalized RNA-seq read count values for three biological replicates are shown per time point. Time points and genotypes are labeled by color and shape, respectively