An integrated and comparative approach towards identification, characterization and functional annotation of candidate genes for drought tolerance in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench)

Table 2 Description of exons and introns distributions for the novel genes throughout genome

Scaffolds	Total features per scaffold			Exons per gene		Length (bp) of features										Scaffold size
	Total features per scaffold			Exons per gene		Shortest			Longest			Total		Average
	Exons	Introns	Genes	Max^a	Ave^b	Exons	Introns	Genes	Exons	Introns	Genes	Exons	Introns	Exons	introns
Chr1	66	38	28	9	2.4	20	77	209	2065	3614	8778	23,780	23,480	360.3	617.9	2164–67,845,075
Chr2	45	25	20	7	1.8	6	69	254	1283	1146	4690	13,378	4853	297.3	194.12	135,092–64,307,455
Chr3	35	14	21	4	1.6	3	103	236	2297	3392	3689	15,921	11,234	454.8	802.4	25,612–73,118,483
Chr4	60	37	23	9	2.6	7	66	224	2732	10,968	13,188	20,569	33,993	342.8	918.7	10,238–67,290,539
Chr5	44	25	19	5	2.3	19	71	245	2018	6695	8795	12,688	25,038	288.4	1001.5	43,486–33,757,957
Chr6	23	12	12	5	1.9	31	76	293	1337	1060	6502	7588	4018	329.9	334.8	11,607–52,987,788
Chr7	39	18	20	4	2	6	79	224	3156	2505	7905	18,860	9241	483.6	513.4	41,803–56,863,519
Chr8	45	20	25	5	1.8	6	71	218	2858	2680	4372	25,730	15,539	571.8	777	10,323–34,152,034
Chr9	44	24	20	6	2.2	44	69	233	3614	15,338	16,668	24,142	27,308	548.7	1137.8	17,759–55,481,927
Chr10	38	18	20	5	1.9	24	72	212	1855	6768	13,475	16,358	17,936	430.5	996.4	13,087–53,827,720
Super	2	0	2	2	1	739	0	739	887	0	889	5695	0	798.2	0	4–8,720,612
Ava	40	21	19	6	2.1	81	67	275	2446	5580	8141	17,958	19,777	479.1	735.4	28,289–51,668,465

Key to legend: ^a Maximum; ^bAverage. This data depicts that the least number of novel genes (2, 1%) were identified in super scaffold, probably owing to its relative smaller size and lower gene density [8] and that highest prediction was from chromosome 1 with 28 genes showing its biggest size

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