Figure 4
Comparison of sorghum and rice anther transcriptome. Lin and co-workers82 identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in several male sterile mutants of rice and divided them into three clades based on stage specific expression. Clade 2, 1, and 3 represent premeiotic to tetrad, tetrad and microspore, and pollen-related genes, respectively. A comparison with different groups of DEGs in our data highlighted interesting parallels between two studies. Based on orthology, the clade 2 genes of rice showed maximum common genes with group 2 of our data; clade 1 showed common genes with groups 2 and 3; and clade 3 showed maximum common genes with groups 5 and 6.
