Fig. 6
Cassava’s lignin biosynthetic pathway. Expression of whitefly-infestation gDEGs during whitefly and SA, JA, ABA, and ET treatments are shown beside lignin-pathway genes. Of note, MeCOMTf and MeCCOAMTa showed strong upregulation in ECU72 versus COL2246 at most infestation and hormone-treatment time points. Expression is displayed as log2FC values in ECU72 as compared to COL2246 with ECU72 upregulated (red) and downregulated (blue) gDEGs displayed. Time points where gene expression was not significantly different between the genotypes are shown in white. Time points from left to right during infestation are 0, 1, 7, 14, and 22 dpi and during hormone treatments are 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, and 24 hpt. Gene loci are provided in Additional file 30