Dose-dependent effects of <i>P. fluorescens</i> strains on survival and developmental delay.

For each experimental treatment, the percent pupal or adult survival is normalized to that of the appropriate control, which has been set to 100%, and the relative delay to pupariation is normalized to that of the appropriate control, which has been set at 0. In this figure CS-A larval treatment groups are represented using circles and OR larval treatment groups by diamonds. The size of each data point is scaled to the inoculation dose (highest dose/largest circle is cfu/plate; smallest dose/smallest circle is cfu/plate; highest dose/largest diamond is ; lowest dose/smallest diamond is ); Pf0-1 (blue), SBW25 (green), Pf-5 (red), killed Pf-5 (gray) and a Pf-5 gacA mutant (open red circle). (A) The relative developmental delay (see Materials and Methods) during the larval stage (X-axis) was plotted against the percentage of larvae that survived to pupariate (Y-axis) for six different experiments. (B) The relative developmental delay during the pupal stage (X-axis) was plotted against the percentage of pupae that survived to adult survivors (Y-axis). (C) The relative developmental delay during larval and pupal stages (X-axis) was plotted against the percentage of larvae that survived to adult (Y-axis).