KO-<i>nudx8</i> mutant is more susceptible to infection against bacterial and oomycete pathogen than WT plants.

<p>A) KO-<i>nudx8</i> mutant is more susceptible to <i>Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis</i> Emwa1 infection than the WT (three-fold change). Sporangiophore (SPP) count after <i>Hp</i>a Emwa1 infection at dawn. Ten-day-old <i>Arabidopsis</i> plants were inoculated (5×10⁵ spores per mL) with asexual spore suspension of <i>Hpa</i>. Disease phenotypes were scored seven days post-infiltration (dpi) after trypan blue staining. B) <i>KO-nudx8</i> plants are more susceptible to the bacterial pathogen <i>Psm</i> ES4326 than WT (0.6 fold change Log₁₀). Infected tissue was collected three days after infection. All experiments were carried out with at least three biological replicates. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals of log-transformed data (n = 7). Asterisks indicates significant difference according to Student's t test (<i>P</i><0.05).