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. 2010 Feb 24;11:136. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-136

Table 1.

Percentage of genes in each of the ten functional categories in five PVSets

Category Name Gene Examples PVSet1 PVSet2 PVSet4 PVSet6 PVSet11
Cell Growth & Maintenance Tubulin, auxin-regulated, histone 26.3% 40.0% 39.3% 29.8% 25.4%

Energy Chlorophyll binding, RuBisCO 3.0% 1.7% 1.8% 27.7% 6.5%

Hypothetical/Unknown Function Hypothetical/unknown function in databases 24.1% 35.0% 25.0% 17.4% 32.5%

Other (Miscellaneous) Transposons, cell death, pollen-related 1.5% 1.7% 1.8% 1.1% 0.6%

Oxidative Metallothionein, cysteine protease, peroxidase 0.8% 2.5% 3.6% 0.7% 0.6%

Stress, Defense, Shock-related Chitinase, drought resistance, stress-induced 4.5% 5.8% 8.9% 2.5% 8.9%

Signaling Cytochrome P450, protein kinases, calmodulin 9.0% 5.8% 8.9% 10.3% 5.3%

Seed Proteins Lipoxygenase, seed maturation protein, trypsin inhibitor 16.5% 0.0% 0.0% 5.0% 0.0%

Transcription DNA-binding, transcription factors, zinc finger proteins 13.5% 5.8% 3.6% 3.9% 13.0%

Transporters and Membrane Proteins Sugar/amino acid transporters, membrane intrinsic proteins 0.8% 1.7% 7.1% 1.8% 7.1%

The ten functional categories are shown along with examples of gene families placed in each category. The percentage of genes in each functional category is shown in each of five PVSets.