Fig. 1

Characterization of the contigs established by a de novo transcriptome assembly of unmapped reads across all 23 inbreds. a Number of newly identified genes which had based on BLASTn searches homology to at least one of eight different plant species. b Expression of 1,502 newly identified genes in the three different tissues. c Number of inbred lines in which the contigs of the de novo transcriptome assembly were expressed. Gray bar shows the contigs detected in only one sample. The 1502 genes, which were expressed in at least two samples, were marked in black and were designated as newly identified genes