Fig. 2

Effect of exposure time to thermotherapy treatment on rescue ratio, percentage of surviving meristems, and efficiency of PPV elimination (A) as well as HSVd elimination (B). Thermotherapy treatments consisted of cycles of 32–38ºC every four hours applied to Ca-PPV and MR-HSVd apricot shoots. Error bars represent the standard error. The dashed line represents the trend in pathogen eradication. The numbers indicate the initial treated shoots on yellow bars, the total number of isolated meristems on green bars, and the number of established lines on red bars