Oryza sativa plants at 4 dpi. Bars show the means SEM obtained from six biological replicates; asterisk indicates significant difference compared with control (t-test with Welch’s correction,p= 0.0001). On the right it is shown that, in the presence of escin, hyphae hyperproliferate in the inoculated rice leaves and cause necrosis, which extend along the spray-inoculated leaves.