Natural Antisense Transcripts in Plants: A Review and Identification in Soybean Infected with Phakopsora pachyrhizi SuperSAGE Library

Table 1

NAT prospection in plant studies using SAGE or derivatives techniques.

Specie	Unitags	NATs	Library	Techique	Reference
Rice	15131	3*	Mature leaf; immature seed tissue	SG	[67]
Lotus japonicus	8532	25**	Nodulating roots	SG	[68]
Sugarcane	5227	894	Mature leaves	SG	[69]
Wheat	29261	5*	Seed (developing wheat caryopsis)	SG	[70]
Barley	41909	6*	Seed (during the malting process)	SG	[71]
Arabidopsis	26456	5555	Seedlings/low temperature	SG	[72]
Rice	83382	6050	Magnaporthe grisea infection	LS	[73]
Potato	22233	6*	Tubers at the end of flowering	LS	[74]
Wheat	37615	845	Grains (hot/dry conditions)	LS	[60]
Brassica napus	32395	309	Seed (23 DAP/35 DAP)	LS	[67]
Chickpea	17493	170	Root/drought	SS	[68]
Solanum torvum	34269	891	Cadmium-stressed roots	SS	[69]

∗Considering the 100 most abundant tags; **considering the differentially expressed tags; SG: SAGE; LS: LongSAGE; SS: SuperSAGE.