Development of a seedling inoculation technique for rapid evaluation of soybean for resistance to Phomopsis longicolla under controlled conditions

Table 2 Effect of plant age at inoculation with Phomopsis longicolla on stem length and stem lesion length in the seedling cut-stem inoculation experiments

Plant age at inoculation (days)	Growth stage*	Stem length (AUGPC)**	Lesion length (AUDPC)**
14	V2	828.9 b	257.5 a
21	V3	1394.3 a	266.9 a
28	V4	1240.3 a	198.6 b
35	R1	1300.1 a	119.5 b
Mean		1190.9	230.6

*Growth stage was determined as described by Fehr and Caviness [38]. V = vegetative growth stage and R = reproductive growth stage
**Means followed by the same letter within a column are not significantly different by the least significant difference test at P ≤ 0.05 as determined by the SAS GLMMIX procedure

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