Research Article

Comparative Transcriptomics Reveals 129 Transcripts That Are Temporally Regulated during Anther Development and Meiotic Progression in Both Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum) and Rice (Oryza sativa)

Table 1

Biological classifications for 129 meiotically regulated wheat and rice transcripts. Annotations retrieved from NCBI were functionally categorised by manually searching the available literature. Numbers in parentheses correspond to the percentage representation within the 129 transcripts. No hits found imply so for a threshold E-value < . Percentage representations have been rounded-up to one decimal place.

CategoryRepresentations (%)

Meiosis/cell cycle17 (13.2)
Transcription factors and nucleic acid binding13 (10.1)
Cellular metabolism12 (9.3)
Organelle activity10 (7.8)
Biotic stress-related9 (7.0)
Signal transduction8 (6.2)
Secondary metabolism6 (4.7)
Protein metabolism6 (4.7)
Membrane transport5 (3.9)
Hormone regulation4 (3.1)
Protein transport3 (2.3)
Abiotic stress response2 (1.6)
Cell wall-related2 (1.6)
Lipid metabolism2 (1.6)
Tapetal function1 (0.8)
Protein folding1 (0.8)
Embryonic development1 (0.8)
Ribosomal1 (0.8)
Development1 (0.8)
Function not annotated17 (13.2)
No hits found8 (6.2)