Building the sugarcane genome for biotechnology and identifying evolutionary trends

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Comparison of sugarcane (Sc) and sorghum (Sb) genome size variation using a two-tailed Welch’s t-test

	Average ± SD		Sc/Sb	SE	df	t-value
	Sc	Sb
Intron length/gene (Kb)	2.22 ± 3.58	1.53 ± 1.57	1.44	0.21	476	2.87**
Intergenic length/syntenic block^a (Kb)	19.30 ± 25.05	11.15 ± 18.92	1.73	2.84	225	3.26**
CDS length (Kb)	1.28 ± 0.75	1.29 ± 0.75	0.99	0.06	695	0.15

**P < 0.01. a: The nucleotide length between genes in a colinear region. SE: standard error, df: degree of freedom.

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