Fig. 1

Impact of MoXYL1 gene deletion on colony morphology and infectious growth of M. oryzae. a Strains of the indicated genotype were inoculated on CM media and photographed after 10-days of growth. b Statistical analysis of average colony diameter (mm) from three independent biological experiments with five replicates each. One-way ANOVA (non-parametric) was employed to assess statistical significance. Error bars account for standard deviation and asterisks represent the significant difference between wild type Guy11 and the mutant strain (p < 0.001). c Depicts drastically reduced ability of conidiophoregenesis of ΔMoxyl1A genes as compared to Guy11 at 12 h and 24 h interval. d Quantitation and statistical analysis of conidia production in ΔMoxyl1 strains relative to Guy11, obtained from cultures grown on Rice Bran Media, Straw Decoction and Corn media and CM-II media, respectively, from five independent biological experiments with five replicates. The data was analyzed with GraphPad Prism5; error bars represent the standard deviation, while a single asterisk (*) represent significant differences (p < 0.05) and double asterisks (**) represent significant differences (p < 0.001) according to ordinary one-way ANOVA