Analysis of the floral transcriptome uncovers new regulators of organ determination and gene families related to flower organ differentiation in Gerbera hybrida (Asteraceae)

Table 1.

Functional classification of the gerbera EST collection




Total

Late petal

Infloresc

Botrytis infected

Stamen

Leaf

Scape

Early petal

Regina pappus

Nero pappus
ESTs 16994 2442 3726 1919 1818 1620 1643 1169 1511 1146
UniGenes 8098 1335 2190 1202 1350 1160 1249 947 1109 614
Clusters 2591 258 357 390 225 244 232 132 196 237
Singletons 5507 1077 1833 812 1125 916 1017 815 913 377
Clusters (%) 32.0 19.3 16.3 32.5 16.7 21.0 18.6 14.9 17.7 38.6
Singletons (%)
68.0
80.7
83.7
67.6
83.3
79.0
81.4
86.1
82.3
61.4
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
a) Match Arabidopsis Funcat (1e-10) 41.5 50.5 44.5 32.9 46.3 52.5 35.0 57.9 31.7 21.0
b) Ambiguous/unknown function 12.4 14.0 12.0 8.3 12.8 12.3 7.5 15.0 7.5 5.9
c) Functionally annotated 29.2 36.5 32.5 24.5 33.5 40.2 27.5 42.9 24.3 15.1
d) [01] Metabolism 9.2 11.8 8.0 8.3 11.6 13.1 9.6 11.8 7.9 6.0
   [02] Energy 3.7 4.1 3.5 2.7 4.7 8.8 4.1 4.5 1.8 2.8
   [03] Cell growth 1.9 2.8 2.6 1.5 2.8 2.0 1.3 1.9 1.3 1.0
   [04] Transcription 4.6 5.8 6.4 2.3 4.5 4.2 3.0 7.0 3.1 1.3
   [05] Protein synthesis 2.7 4.9 4.2 2.5 3.0 5.3 3.5 7.6 2.3 1.0
   [06] Protein destination 3.7 5.4 3.8 3.2 3.9 4.7 3.4 5.6 3.2 1.8
   [07] Transport facilitation 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.7 4.1 2.8 2.6 3.5 2.9 1.6
   [08] Cellular transport & transport mechanisms 2.3 3.2 2.5 3.2 3.6 2.4 2.6 3.3 2.1 2.0
   [09] Cellular biogenesis 3.0 4.0 3.3 2.7 4.1 3.4 3.9 4.0 3.1 2.0
   [10] Cellular communication/signal transduction 4.7 4.8 5.2 3.5 5.9 4.7 3.6 5.6 4.0 1.5
   [11] Cell defense 4.7 6.9 4.8 3.7 6.4 7.0 4.3 6.4 4.5 1.5
   [13] Ionic homeostasis 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
   [30] Cellular organisation 7.3 10.4 10.3 5.2 8.0 12.1 6.7 13.0 5.1 3.7
   [35] Motility 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
   [50] Development 1.6 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.7 1.9 1.1 1.7 0.8 0.2
   [90] Transposable elements 0.3 0.0 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.0
   [97] Organism specific proteins 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
e) No match to Arabidopsis Funcat 58.5 49.5 55.5 67.1 53.7 47.5 65.0 42.1 68.3 79.0
f) Short peptides (discarded) 13.7 7.3 9.9 23.5 11.9 9.0 21.1 5.8 22.2 40.6
g) Novel gerbera CDS
44.8
42.2
45.6
43.6
41.8
38.5
43.9
36.3
46.1
38.4
  • BLASTX was performed against functionally annotated Arabidopsis proteins (MIPS Funcat) and the results were filtered using the expectation value of 1e-10. This results in UniGenes that correspond to a functionally annotated protein (a) and a population of apparently novel UniGenes (e). The functionally annotated class represents proteins of known function, but also includes sequences of 27 unknown or unclear function (MIPS Funcat codes 98 and 99). Sequences that cannot be assigned to a functional class (b) are described separately from the sequences that can be assigned a putative function (c). The distribution of distinct functional classes is summarized in (d). Note that a typical peptide is assigned more than one function so the sum of assignments is greater than the whole. The sequences that show no clear homolog to a functionally annotated Arabidopsis protein have been further separated into the sequences that have a short peptide (f) and the sequences that have a long peptide and represent putative Gerbera specific CDS. All sequences may be summed by (b) + (c) + (f) + (g).

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