Figure 5

Three Phases of the Transcriptional Regulatory Program Underlying Barley Germination. The normalized mRNA intensities of the 6157 differentially regulated genes at the six developmental stages were subject to hierarchical cluster analysis. The six developmental stages were clustered into two groups with a threshold distance of 174. The transcriptional regulatory program underlying barley germination process was divided into three germination phases, early, late and post-germination phases.