Table 2.

Pathways of differentially expressed unigenes annotated in KEGG

NO.	Pathway annotated in KEGG	DEG number	Total number	P-value	Pathway ID	Level 1	Level 2
HB-E vs. LB-E
1	Plant hormone signal transduction	67	666	0.138944617	ko04075	Environmental Information Processing	Signal transduction
2	Photosynthesis	61	108	2.63445E-36	ko00195	Metabolism	Energy metabolism
3	Protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum	56	485	0.022169926	ko04141	Genetic Information Processing	Folding, sorting and degradation
4	DNA replication	36	86	1.97547E-16	ko03030	Genetic Information Processing	Replication and repair
5	Photosynthesis - antenna proteins	34	47	4.46141E-26	ko00196	Metabolism	Energy metabolism
HB-G1 vs. LB-G1
1	Protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum	25	485	2.21325E-05	ko04141	Genetic Information Processing	Folding, sorting and degradation
2	Plant hormone signal transduction	22	666	0.018159619	ko04075	Environmental Information Processing	Signal transduction
3	Photosynthesis	12	108	2.04012E-06	ko00195	Metabolism	Energy metabolism
4	MAPK signaling pathway - plant	12	353	0.058286698	ko04016	Environmental Information Processing	Signal transduction
5	Phenylpropanoid biosynthesis	11	320	0.063782317	ko00940	Metabolism	Biosynthesis of other secondary metabolites
HB-G2 vs. LB-G2
1	Plant hormone signal transduction	19	666	0.000772591	ko04075	Environmental Information Processing	Signal transduction
2	Diterpenoid biosynthesis	8	57	5.31481E-07	ko00904	Metabolism	Metabolism of terpenoids and polyketides
3	Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism	8	276	0.023594718	ko00520	Metabolism	Carbohydrate metabolism
4	Starch and sucrose metabolism	7	277	0.060857028	ko00500	Metabolism	Carbohydrate metabolism
5	Ascorbate and aldarate metabolism	6	91	0.001004811	ko00053	Metabolism	Carbohydrate metabolism

“HB-E” and “LB-G” for “high-budding phenotype, early stage” and “low-budding, growth stage”, respectively