Table 3 Quantitative estimations of expression in ovule nucellar cells of sexual and apomictic plants at AI onset stage.

From: The vesicle trafficking regulator PN_SCD1 is demethylated and overexpressed in florets of apomictic Paspalum notatum genotypes

P. notatum (query)

P. simplex (subject)

Similarity parameters

Size (P. simplex)

RPKM (average)a

p-valueb

APO

SEX

PN_SCD1

PS_6.6 0.1c

(OM_Locus_1_Transcript_365164/578620)

E-value: 0.0; ID: 98%; Gaps: 0%

1896

7.62

2.27

0.03386

PS_6.6.2

OM_Locus_82107_Transcript_4/4

E-value: 0.0; ID: 96%; Gaps: 0%

602

155.43

177.36

0.23311

  1. aRPKM = (number of mapped reads)/(length of transcript in kilo bases)/(million mapped reads).
  2. bBaggerly’s test for differential expression in apomictic and sexual libraries58.
  3. cUpregulated at statistically significant level in the ovule nucellus of apomictic plants just before AI differentiation.