Table 2

Developmental, function and pathway analyses of 125 cotton fiber genes (Set 1) identified by expression profiling and double feature selection analysis highlighting the top represented GO pathways.

Cluster (genes)
Pima pattern
TM1 pattern
Top pathway (P value)
Top GO (P value)

1 (13)
Slightly up in SCW
Highly up in SCW
Reductive carboxylase cycle (0.013)
Response to biotic stimulus (0.02)
2 (34)
Down in SCW
Slightly up in the overlapped transition from PCW to SCW
Stilbene, cumarine and lignin biosynthesis (0)
Purine nucleotide binding (0.025)
3 (43)
Up in both PCW and SCW
Down in both PCW and SCW
Starch and Sucrose metabolism (0.03)
Sucrose metabolism (0.02)
4 (28)
Up in PCW and down in SCW
Up in both PCW and SCW
VEGF signaling pathway (0.02)
Serine-type peptidase activity (0.0003)
5 (7)
Down in the transition from PCW to SCW and up in SCW
Up in the PCW and down in the transition from PCW to SCW
Phenylalanine metabolism (0.004)
Transferase activity (0.01)

Alabady et al. BMC Genomics 2008 9:295   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-295