Novel insights into the mechanism(s) of silicon-induced drought stress tolerance in lentil plants revealed by RNA sequencing analysis

Table 3 The number of up regulated and down regulated differentially expressed genes in drought tolerant (ILL 6002) and sensitive (ILL 7537) lentil genotypes under different treatments

	Differentially expressed genes in ILL 6002			Differentially expressed genes in ILL 7537
Comparison types	Up regulated	Down regulated	Total	Up regulated	Down regulated	Total
C vs. D	3056	3190	6246	3733	2950	6683
C vs. Si	52	75	127	1988	2793	4781
D vs. DSi	3695	3469	7164	3077	2499	5576
Si vs. DSi	2350	2700	5050	2145	2960	5105
C vs. DSi	2415	2619	5034	2166	2277	4443
Total genes	11,568	12,053	23,621	13,109	13,479	26,588

Abbreviations used in this table are C Control, Si Silicon alone, D Drought stress, DSi Drought stress supplemented with Si and Si-Silicon alone

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