Table I. Selection criteria for the genes studied.
| Genevestigatora (Means of Experiments) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gene | Reported Tissue with Highest Level of Expression | Reported Level of Expression in AZs (ATH1:22k Array) | ATH_1 Signal in Microarray of the cDNA Library | No. of Genes in the Arabidopsis Genome | Gene Description |
| At1g64405 | AZ (13,728) | 13,728b | 3,952.9 | Unique gene | Unknown protein |
| At2g23630 | Root tip/root cap (43,477) | 136 | 319.4 | 20 | SKS16 (SKU5 similar16) |
| At2g44010 | Radicle (9,935) | 232 | 3,024.9 | 2 | Unknown protein |
| At3g14380 | Stigma (26,895) | 25,892b | 136.4 | 2 | Uncharacterized protein |
| At3g53040 | Embryo (33,901) | 120 | 5,268.0 | 13 | Late embryogenesis abundant protein |
| At3g56350 | Seed (21,731) | 128 | 20,410.0 | 10 | Iron/manganese superoxide dismutase family protein |
| At5g50540 | Mesophyll cell protoplast (631) | 108 | 574.8 | 2 | Unknown protein |
b
From experiments obtained in a stamen AZ transcriptome analysis (Cai and Lashbrook, 2008).