Figure.7 Simultaneous silencing of CaNAC2c andCaNAC2ddid not produce additive decrease in thermotolerance but
significantly decreased the resistance of pepper plants to RSI. A.
Simultaneous silencing of CaNAC2c and CaNAC2d did not
produced additive decrease in thermotolerance of pepper plants. B.
Simultaneous silencing of CaNAC2c and CaNAC2d did not
produced additive decrease in resistance of pepper plants to RSI at 96
and 192 hpi. C. Simultaneous silencing of CaNAC2c andCaNAC2d did not produced additive decrease in Fv/Fm in pepper
plants. D. Simultaneous silencing of CaNAC2c andCaNAC2d did not produced additive decrease in △F/Fm of pepper
leaves upon HTS in pepper plants. E. Simultaneous silencing ofCaNAC2c and CaNAC2d did not produced additive increase in
disease index of pepper plants upon RSI from 2 to 12 dpi. F. Silencing
of CaNAC2d did not significantly downregulated thermotolerance
related gene upon HTS and immunity related marker genes upon RSI, but
its simultaneously silencing with CaNAC2c significantly decreased
the transcription of immunity related marker genes upon RSI, but did not
affect the expression of thermotolerance related genes comparing to that
by CaNAC2c silencing alone. In D, E and F, data presented are
means ± standard error (SE) of four replicates, in D and F, different
letters above the bars indicate significant differences among means
(P < 0.01), as calculated with Fisher’s protected LSD
test.