| Symptoms | Plants with symptoms |
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Expt. 1a
| S | 5/12 |
PDS
| V | 6/12 |
Expt. 1b
| S | 4/10 |
PDS
| V | 5/10 |
Expt. 2
| S | 10/22 |
PDS
| V | 3/22 |
Expt. 2
| S | 0/22 |
GFP
| V | 16/22 |
Expt. 3
| S | 20/28 |
PDS
| V | 5/28 |
Expt. 3
| S | 0/28 |
GFP
| V | 23/28 |
- Virus symptoms and PDS silencing in B. distachyon leaves 3 weeks after inoculation with BSMV-BdPDS or BSMV-GFP375.
- S: plants displaying photobleaching (silencing) as well as virus symptoms. V: plants displaying virus symptoms only. Plants in experiment 1b were inoculated with BSMV-T4-BdPDS, otherwise BSMV-USER-BdPDS was used. Plants were inoculated at 11 (expt. 1), 14 (expt. 2), or 19 (expt. 3) days after sowing.