Organ specificity and transcriptional control of metabolic routes revealed by expression QTL profiling of source-sink tissues in a segregating potato population

Table 2 Functional classification of cis- and trans-acting eQTLs in both leaf and tuber (overlap) or uniquely present in leaf or tuber

GO_Class	Overlap		Leaf Unique		Tuber Unique
	Cis	Trans	Cis	Trans	Cis	Trans
Protein	639	30	297	170	332	411
RNA	361	19	174	125	260	279
Signalling	172	9	105	48	91	91
Stress	133	6	78	73	71	71
Transport	114	4	73	49	65	70
Cell cycle and organisation	101	10	45	25	58	68
Lipid metabolism	94	3	49	26	29	61
Amino acid metabolism	79	4	40	18	39	49
Secondary metabolism	77	2	57	33	34	41
Hormone metabolism	74	1	69	40	75	57
DNA/Chromatin	57	3	43	19	56	58
Redox	50	2	20	9	24	30
Development	45	0	26	14	37	33
Cell wall	41	3	62	24	27	53
Nucleotide metabolism	34	1	15	3	26	18
Minor CHO metabolism	33	2	15	11	15	16
Photosystem	32	0	35	19	26	67
Mitochondrial/ATP synthesis	29	3	9	12	9	11
Major CHO metabolism	24	1	15	7	21	15
Tetrapyrrole synthesis	12	2	6	4	9	13
Glycolysis	10	1	9	8	10	10
Not assigned	2457	289	1386	928	1414	1560

ISSN: 1471-2229