Fig. 5

Defence-related differentially expressed genes (DEG) identified across time points and female floral tissues. Each box shows the number of DEG belonging to each defence-related functional category expressed in stigma (S), transmitting (T) and base (B) tissues at 24H, 48H, 72H, 5D and 7D after inoculation with Claviceps purpurea, H = hours. D = days. The asterisks show the outliers beyond the upper and lower quantiles. The solid line is a regression line fitted to the data. The dotted line represents the fold change at − 1 and + 1, with genes considered not to be significantly differentially expressed if their fold change values fall between the dotted lines