Table 1.

Correlation Coefficients Obtained from Microarray Hybridization Experiments with Total RNA Samples Prepared from Wild-Type or Mutant Cotton Ovules Harvested at Different Growth Stages

	Biological Coefficients			Technical Coefficients
Microarray Samplesa	(1,2)	(2,3)	(1,3)	(1,1′)	(2,2′)	(3,3′)
+3wt/0wt	0.924	0.928	0.938	0.968	0.966	0.957
+3wt/+3wt	0.982	0.989	0.933	0.959	0.965	0.956
+3wt/+3fl	0.925	0.918	0.931	0.960	0.940	0.925
+5wt/+3wt	0.933	0.926	0.917	0.962	0.946	0.937
+10wt/+3wt	0.912	0.932	0.924	0.963	0.945	0.948
+15wt/+3wt	0.966	0.964	0.951	0.976	0.964	0.977
+20wt/+3wt	0.965	0.945	0.966	0.963	0.945	0.954
+10wt/+10fl	0.963	0.951	0.952	0.965	0.956	0.937

^a0wt, +3wt, +5wt, +10wt, +15wt, and +20wt, samples derived from 0-, 3-, 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-DPA wild-type upland cotton ovules; +3fl and +10fl, samples derived from 3- and 10-DPA fuzzless-lintless (fl) mutant upland cotton ovules.