Table 3 Summary of the top differentially regulated GOs in the sample groups

HO6 vs. Wat6

(1) cellular component movement, microtubule, cytoskeleton

(2) transcription, DNA binding, sequence-specific DNA binding, RNA biosynthetic process and regulation

(3) cell cycle, mitosis, organelle organization and localization

(4) hydrolase activity

(5) response to stress

(6) oligosaccharide metabolic, nitrogen compound biosynthetic process, and fatty acid ligase activity

(1) extracellular region

(2) oxidoreductase, peroxidase, and antioxidant activity, response to wounding and oxidative stress

(3) endopeptidase inhibitor and enzyme inhibitor activity

(4) electron transport chain, cellular respiration and oxidative phosphorylation

(5) negative regulation of hydrolase activity

(6) lipid transport and localization

HO24 vs. Wat24

(1) oxidoreductase activity, response to stress, response to oxidative stress, glutathione transferase activity

(2) coenzyme binding

(3) acyl groups transferase activity

(4) DNA integration, DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity

(5) RNA-directed DNA polymerase activity

(6) aspartic-type endopeptidase activity

(7) isoflavonoid biosynthetic process

(8) active transmembrane transporter activity

(9) amino acid, oxylipin, raffinose, oxoacid, organic acid, alkene biosynthetic process

(10) ethylene biosynthetic process

(1) ribosome, ribonucleoprotein complex

(2) translation, translation elongation factor activity

(3) extracellular region

(4) cellular response to oxidative stress, peroxidase activity, oxidoreductase activity, antioxidant activity

(5) cellular biosynthetic process

(6) cell wall organization or biogenesis

(7) lipid catabolic process

(8) organelle assembly, mitotic spindle elongation

(9) enzyme inhibitor activity, peptidase inhibitor activity

(10) electron carrier activity

HO24 vs. HO6

(1) extracellular region

(2) oxidoreductase activity, antioxidant activity, peroxidase activity, glutathione transferase activity

(3) response to stress, response to oxidative stress, cellular response to reactive oxygen species

(4) hydrogen peroxide catabolic and metabolic process, reactive oxygen species metabolic process

(5) nucleosome, cell division, chromatin, mitosis, nuclear division

(6) DNA packaging, DNA conformation change, chromatin assembly, protein-DNA complex assembly, chromatin assembly or disassembly, nucleosome assembly

(7) response to inorganic and organic substance, organonitrogen compound, nitrogen compound, water deprivation, and wounding

(8) cellular response to ethylene stimulus, ethylene mediated signalling pathway

(9) cell wall

(10) electron carrier activity

(1) secondary cell wall biogenesis, UDP-glucosyltransferase activity, cellulose synthase activity; carbohydrate, polysaccharide, lignin, xylan, beta-glucan, and polysaccharide biosynthetic process

(2) response to auxin stimulus, auxin mediated signalling pathway

(3) sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity, transcription, RNA biosynthetic process, chromatin binding

(4) lipid metabolic process, lipid biosynthetic process

(5) response to organic substance

(6) oxidoreductase activity

(7) cell periphery

(8) extracellular region

(9) signal transduction

(10) phenylpropanoid metabolic process