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Fig. 5 | Phytopathology Research

Fig. 5

From: Small RNAs generated by bidirectional transcription mediate silencing of RXLR effector genes in the oomycete Phytophthora sojae

Fig. 5

The expression of numerous RXLR effector genes was negatively associated with the accumulation of homologous sRNAs in P. sojae. Screening of the high confident sRNA-associated RXLR effector genes by sense sRNA level (a) and antisense sRNA level (b). In a and b, RXLR effector genes having comparable (or more) sRNA reads than the mean (x-axis) or max (y-axis) number of Avr1b sRNA reads homologous to the ORF region were regarded as high confident sRNA associated. Blue or green dots indicate the RXLR effector genes above the threshold. Dashed lines indicate the threshold levels for the mean or max number of reads, and the red circle indicates Avr1b. c The sRNA expression was associated with silencing of RXLR effector genes in P. sojae in mycelia and during infection. The average abundance of sense and antisense sRNA reads of the RXLR effector genes, and the expression level of the RXLR effector genes in mycelia and infection tissues (24 h post inoculation) which retrieved from Phytophthora transcriptome database were used for clustering analysis

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