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

Table 1

Cotton cDNA libraries used for EST assembly (details on these libraries can be accessed at http://www.agcol.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/pave/Cotton/index.cgi/).

Library source Tissue^a	Library ID	Number of ESTs
Etiolated cotyledon	GH_ECOT, GH_ECT	5084
Seedling (control)	GH_SDL	1378
Seedling (drought stress)	GH_SDLD	589
Seedling (chilling stress)	GH_SDCH	207
Ovary (−3  to 1 dpa)	GH_FOX	6896
8–10 dpa boll (irrigated)	GH_MDI	946
8–10 dpa boll (drought stress)	GH_MDDS	988
15–20 dpa boll (irrigated)	GH_LDI	1428
15–20 dpa boll (drought stress)	GH_LDDS	1014
Mature stem	GH_STEM	6588
Total		25,118

Seedling libraries include cDNAs from root and shoot tissues.
dpa is the days after anthesis.