Table 2.

Estimation of alternatively spliced genes of the three stages.

	Flower stages (our study)			TAIR10
	IM	F1–9	F12
Multi-exon genes	17,131	18,048	18,326	22,352
AS genes	4156	3392	4466	5712
% of AS	24.3%	18.8%	24.4%	25.6%