Figure 2: Resistance to infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae PR9 in rice cv. Senia plants. (A) Leaves from a representative experiment of rice plants infected with 105 conidia/ml of non-treated fungi (control) or treated with 20 μM of the corresponding peptide. Pictures were taken at 3 days post-inoculation. (B) Percentage of leaf area affected by blast lesions was determined using image analysis software Assess v.2.0.