RNA silencing is a key regulatory mechanism in the biocontrol fungus Clonostachys rosea-wheat interactions

Table 2 Summary of sRNA sequencing and number of reads assigned to wheat and C. rosea

Sample	C. rosea control	Wheat control	C. rosea-Wheat interactions
Sample	C. rosea control	Wheat control	WT-Wr	Δdcl1-Wr	Δdcl2-Wr
Raw reads (in million bp)^b	11.90	13.86	19.04	15.51	15.57
Clean reads (in million bp)^b	9.65	12.21	16.28	13.37	13.41
Reads of 18–32 nt ^a	39.85	33.45	30.14	32.45	35.77
Non-structural reads of 18–32 nt ^a	36.96	30.37	27.39	28.88	32.39
Sense reads mapped to wheat transcriptome^c	NA	81.68	89.74	91.09	95.95
Antisense reads mapped to wheat transcriptome^c	NA	25.63	22.39	20.91	30.50
Sense reads mapped to CR transcriptome^c	4.73	NA	2.83	2.92	4.40
Antisense reads mapped to CR transcriptome^c	6.07	NA	1.83	1.93	1.91

^aPercentages of clean reads. WT, C. rosea wildtype; Wr, wheat roots
^bThe average read number from three biological replicates
^cPercentages of clean non-structural reads of 18–32 nt. WT, C. rosea wildtype; Wr, wheat roots

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