Characterization of the Maize Endosperm Transcriptome and Its Comparison to the Rice Genome

Table 3.

Localization of Maize Endosperm cDNA on Rice Chromosomes


Chromosomes

Physical length

No. of predicted genes

No. of genes excluded repeats

No. of maize genes mapped

No. of orthologous rice genes

Genes/Mb

Percentage (%)
Ch01 42.96 6690 5719 572 446 10.38 7.80
Ch02 35.84 5437 4628 561 425 11.86 9.18
Ch03 36.90 5737 4928 725 522 14.15 10.59
Ch04 34.76 5355 4125 335 258 7.42 6.25
Ch05 29.26 4550 3572 358 264 9.02 7.39
Ch06 31.30 4805 3876 332 245 7.83 6.32
Ch07 29.44 4574 3640 320 251 8.53 6.90
Ch08 28.46 4277 3324 284 214 7.52 6.44
Ch09 22.76 3419 2695 208 164 7.21 6.09
Ch10 22.42 3477 2754 173 132 5.89 4.79
Ch11 27.62 4187 3310 181 129 4.67 3.90
Ch12 11.95 1889 1456 79 58 4.85 3.98
Total
353.67
54,397
44,027
4128
3108
8.79
7.06

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