Moderate pathogen stress accelerates reproductive development in Arabidopsis.

<p>(A) Col-0 plants were inoculated with varying inoculum levels (Mock-10⁶ spores/mL) of the fungal pathogen <i>Fusarium oxysporum</i> at the 6–8 leaf rosette stage and photographed 14 days later (14dpi). (B) Percentage of leaves showing symptoms at 14 dpi. (C) Percentage of plants that had bolted at 14dpi in each treatment. Data from B-C show mean and standard error from three biological replicates each containing 10 plants per treatment. Asterisk indicates statistically significant difference from mock treatment (<i>P</i><0.05) using a Student’s <i>t</i>-test.