Fig. 6

Expression profiling analysis of cotton seedlings under normal and salt conditions. A The number of up-regulated and down-regulated gens in CK versus ThST5-OE under normal and salt conditions. B Comparison of DEGs from CK and ThST5-OE under normal growth condition (CK-N_undefinedThST5-OE-N), CK and ThST5-OE under saline condition (CK-S_ThST5-OE-S), and CK under normal growth condition and saline condition (CK-N_CK-S) by Venn diagram. Numbers correspond to the count of overlapped or unique DEGs in each comparison group. C, D Gene ontology (GO) categorization of all DEGs between ThST5-OE and CK under normal conditions (C) and under salt stress (D). E, F Hierarchical clustering analysis of ThST5 regulated salt-responsive genes regulated by ThST5 under normal (E) and under salt stress conditions (F). The heatmap is the representation of fold changes in abundance of the mRNAs in two groups. The abscissa donates sample name and ordinate contains the DEGs. Results were displayed as log2 ratio. The colors correspond to the level of gene expression