Table 3.

Table of illustrative examples of how genes may be classified into non-target and target groups.

Type of gene	Gene expression ratios
Day 1	Day 4	Day 7	Linear/quadratic time trend
Gene expression is not significantly altered at any time-point and shows no time-course evolution	1.1 (p > 0.05)	1.1 (p > 0.05)	1.1 (p > 0.05)	p > 0.05
Gene expression is significantly altered by blast in some or all time points, but no	1.1 (p < 0.05)	1.1 (p < 0.05)	1.1 (p < 0.05)	p > 0.05
significant time-course evolution	1.1 (p < 0.05)	1.1 (p > 0.05)	1.1 (p > 0.05)
Gene expression is not significantly altered by blast but overall show significant time-course evolution	1.1 (p > 0.05)	1.2 (p > 0.05)	2 (p > 0.05)	p < 0.05
Gene expression is significantly altered at least one time-point, and shows	1.1 (p < 0.05)	5 (p < 0.05)	1.1 (p < 0.05)	p < 0.05
time-course evolution (overlapping genes)	1.1 (p > 0.05)	5 (p < 0.05)	1.1 (p > 0.05)

p-values represent the statistical significance of comparisons between blast-exposed and control samples at each time-point.