Table 1.

Classification of 1250 full-sequenced cDNAs

classification	number of cDNAs	references
433 salt stress related genes	367
Thellungiella salt stress inducible genes	127	Taji et al., 2004 Plant Physiol Gong et al., 2005 Plant J. Wong et al., 2005 Plant Mol Biol. Taji et al., unpublished data
salt stress inducible genes in Thellungiella and Arabidopsis	191
constitutive high-expressed genes in Thellungiella compared with Arabidopsis	78
genes encoding Na+ transporter	9
overlapping genes in EST libraries of abiotic stressed plants from Thellungiella	30
response to abiotic or biotic stress classified by Gene Ontologya	450	Taji et al., 2009 BMC Plant Biol.
transcription factor classified by Gene Ontologya	285	Taji et al., 2009 BMC Plant Biol.
protein phosphatase 2C	24	Taji et al., 2009 BMC Plant Biol.
total	1126
total after elimination of overlapped cDNAs	1047

^a Gene Ontlogy (GO) terms were obtained using InterPro. According to the GO terms, RTFL clones were classified by using Plant GO Slim http://www.geneontology.org/GO.slims.shtml