Table 1.

RNA-sequencing, read mapping and feature count statistics of the experiment

Next-generation sequencing platform	Illumina Hiseq2000
Cultivars investigated	7
Library type	Single-end
Number of libraries	84
Read length (bp)	50
Total number of reads	2,901,803,214
Average total reads	34,545,276.36
Total number of bases (Gb)a	145.09
Total number of HQb filtered reads	2,877,839,522
Average HQ reads	34,259,994.31
Total number of HQ bases in HQ reads (Gb)	143.89
Percentage of HQ filtered reads	99.18%
alignment_not_uniquec	3,410,081.85
ambiguousc	219,495.24
no_featurec	2,692,823.24
not_alignedc	0.00
too_low_aQualc	0.00

^aGiga base pair (1,000,000,000 bp)

^bHigh quality (Phred score = 20)

^cHTSeq