Do transgenesis and marker-assisted backcross breeding produce substantially equivalent plants? - A comparative study of transgenic and backcross rice carrying bacterial blight resistant gene Xa21

Table 2 Statistics of RNA sequencing data, generated by Illumina sequencing, on four rice plants

	D62B	DXT	DXB	MH86
Raw reads	5,801,661	6,161,959	6,101,257	6,104,443
Qualified reads	5,677,504	6,026,127	5,962,165	5,954,422
Unambiguous tag mapping to Gene	2,330,333	2,724,696	2,549,799	2,665,554
Unambiguous tag-mapped Genes	12,048	12,686	12,526	13,349
Unambiguous tag/gene	193.4	214.8	203.6	199.7

D62B: the recipient control; DXT: transgenic line with Xa21; DXB: MAB line with Xa21; MH86: another rice variety.

ISSN: 1471-2164