Research Article

Toward Coalescing Gene Expression and Function with QTLs of Water-Deficit Stress in Cotton

Figure 1

A Venn diagram showing the levels of candidate gene identification. Three categories including unique transcripts in stress-treated cDNA libraries, differential expression profile, and TCs mapped to a stress QTL defined level I candidate genes. Genes associated with multiple Level I categories (overlapping regions) define Level II and Level III candidates. The number in parentheses indicates unique differentially expressed drought stress ESTs that mapped to stress QTLs.