Fig. 2.

Schematic representation of the completed analysis. a Comparison of leaf and shoot apex revealed genes with changed expression in vegetative and generative tissues. The number of genes exclusively expressed in sample was shown in brackets. The 933 DEGs that exhibited upregulated expression in tissues with small floral buds and generative organs were further analyzed to detect genes differentially expressed among female, male, and hermaphroditic lines. b Venn diagrams of 310 sex-specific DEGs (in three comparisons: female vs male, female vs hermaphrodite, and male vs hermaphrodite) show number of genes with higher or exclusive expression in female, male or hermaphroditic line in each comparison