Fig. 7

A Read length distribution of sRNA reads mapped to wheat. B 5′ base distribution of sRNA reads mapped to wheat. C Average transcriptome read counts of wheat genes, depending on their percentile rank of antisense sRNA counts. Percentile ranks were assigned to each gene based on its antisense sRNA counts. Therefore, genes in the group “1–20” are the 20% of genes with the lowest amount of antisense sRNAs mapping to them, while genes in the group “81–100” are the ones with the highest number of antisense sRNAs. Genes with an antisense sRNA count of zero were not considered. Lowercase, uppercase, Greek letters and numbers indicate groups not significantly different according to separate Tukey tests with a maximum p-value of 0.05