Table 3.

Number of key salt-responsive genes identified from the root transcriptome of A. officinalis: The sequences of DEGs were aligned with the published (GEO database) transcriptome and microarray data obtained from the roots of Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Arabidopsis and rice in response to salt treatment.

Species	Hits	Reference	GEO ID
Bruguiera gymnorhiza	21	Yamanaka et al.31	GSE10942
Arabidopsis	09	Dinneny et al.104	GDS3216
Arabidopsis	05	Geng et al.105	GSE46208
Rice	70	Mizuno et al.107	GSE20746
Rice	05	Cotsaftis et al.106	GSE14403