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Table 7 Pearson correlation coefficients between the area under disease progress curve (AUDPC) values of stem lesion length and dry weight from the cut-seedling inoculation experiments and the percentage of seed infection with Phomopsis longicolla in the field experiments

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

Maturity group

Dry weight

2009 field

(Non)*

2012 field

(Non)*

2012 field

(Inoc)*

r**

P***

r**

P***

r**

P***

r**

P***

III

− 0.9242

< 0.0001

0.6231

0.0173

0.3481

0.2225

0.6598

0.0102

IV

− 0.8371

0.0002

0.5460

0.0434

0.0093

0.9750

0.4050

0.1508

V

− 0.8493

0.0001

0.2801

0.3321

0.0055

0.9851

0.7099

0.0045

  1. Field data were from our previous field experiments [12]
  2. *Field inoculation experiments. Non: Noninoculated trials, plants were sprayed with distilled water; Inoc: Inoculated with spore suspension of P. longicolla (2 × 105) at the R5 stage
  3. **Pearson correlation coefficients
  4. ***Probability
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Plant Methods

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