“…In this study, due to cooler greenhouse temperatures, plants at 28 das were at the seedling stage (two fully expanded leaves) and plants at 51 das were at maximum tillering. We used Xoo strains for inoculation that exhibited a range of phenotypes on IRBB7 rice (Ponciano et al 2004). These strains range from avirulent (avrXa7 + , PXO1865, PXO368), to partially virulent (avrXa7 -/+ , PXO0314, PXO441, PXO357, PXO433, PXO356, PXO348, PXO448, PXO419), to virulent (avrXa7 -, PXO346, PXO2684).…”