Plants Number of lesions (Avg ± SD) Diameter range of spots (cm) Disease protection (% ± SD) UC 14.0 ± 1.3 0.6-1.4 – L1 5.6 ± 1.0 0.3-0.6 57.9 ± 3.6 L2 5.8 ± 0.9 0.3-0.7 56.5 ± 3.9 L3 8.4 ± 0.8 0.4-0.9 38.6 ± 3.5 L4 8.7 ± 1.3 0.2-1.0 36.5 ± 5.3 L5 5.2 ± 0.7 0.2-0.5 60.6 ± 6.4 L6 6.1 ± 1.1 0.3-0.8 54.4 ± 5.2

Table 1: Evaluation of Alternaria brassicae infection on B. juncea after 15 days of inoculation. Number of fungal lesions and the diameter range of lesions were determined. The percentage disease protection in the transgenic plants with respect to the Untransformed Control plants was determined as described in materials and methods. The data presented is the average ± SD of three replicate experiments.