Research Article

New Insights in the Sugarcane Transcriptome Responding to Drought Stress as Revealed by Supersage

Table 1

Total number of differentially expressed (DE; 𝑃 0 . 0 5 ) up- or downregulated tags observed in different contrasting SuperSAGE root libraries from sugarcane under drought stress (24 hours without irrigation) as compared with negative control (irrigated materials).

ContrastingUpregulatedDownregulatedDETotal

T (TD × TC)12,17912,48224,661152,049
S (SD × SC)12,08516,33928,424141,946
D (TD × SD)15,59112,26927,860148,657
C (TC × SC)12,96116,34229,303148,631

TD: bulk of tolerant genotypes under stress; TC: bulk of tolerant genotypes without stress (control); SD: bulk of sensitive genotypes under stress; SC: bulk of sensitive genotypes without stress (control).