Table 2. Determination of PAb-Mn SOD in different tissues of pearl millet seedlings. Two-day-old resistant (IP 18293) and susceptible (23B) pearl millet genotypes were inoculated with S. graminicola zoospores (4 x 104 zoospores/ml). Root and shoot portions of seedlings were excised 4 hrs of post inoculation and used for the enzyme extraction. 50 µg of each sample was loaded to the wells of ELISA plate. Primary antibody was used at a dilution of 1:20,000. The reaction was read at 410 nm using microtitre plate reader. Data are mean (±SD) of three independent experiments with reading determined in triplicates.

Part of the seedling

Absorbance at 410 nm

Resistant

Susceptible

Uninoculated

Inoculated

Uninoculated

Inoculated

Root

0.31 ± 0.031

0.85 ± 0.025

0.37 ± 0.018

0.52 ± 0.024

Shoot

0.46 ± 0.034

0.25 ± 0.018

0.59 ± 0.037

0.57 ± 0.017


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