Figure 1

Characterization of Arabidopsis-Alternaria brassicicola pairs. a) Symptoms in different ecotypes and genotypes, 3 days after inoculation of intact leaves. Top row, inoculated; bottom row, control. glip1-1 and glip1-2 are two mutants at the glip1 locus encoding a secreted lipase [28]; acd1 is a lesion mimic mutant [32]. Scale bar indicates 2 cm. b) Magnification of images of leaves from (a) showing the ring-like pattern in the progression of the lesion on a DiG leaf (arrows). The innermost dark, thin, arc (no arrow) is material from the inoculum. Scale bar indicates 1 cm. c) Size of lesions on Col-0 and DiG leaves at different times post-inoculation. Representative infected leaves are shown, photographed at the indicated times after inoculation. Scale bar indicates 2 cm. d) Quantitative analysis of lesion size and spore production. Top panel, lesion diameter was measured 5 days after inoculation. Error bars indicate standard errors of the mean for 7 replicate lesions (for Col-0, 9 and DiG, 10 replicates). Lower panel, lesions were excised 5 days after inoculation, the conidia suspended in water, and counted under the microscope in a hemocytometer chamber. Values are means of two independent experiments, consisting of 12 and 4–5 replicates, respectively; the error bars indicate the standard error of the mean of the combined data from the two experiments.