Table 3 Contigs of avocado transcripts grouped into functional classes according to GO database.

Gene ontology	Number of contigs
Unknown	165
Other	48
ATP binding	7
Biological process - cytoplasm	20
Cellular component	39
Response to stress	12
RNA binding	5
Cell wall related	10
Structural constituent of ribosome - translation - ribosome	12
Transcription factor activity - regulation of transcription	7
Transferase activity/cell wall biogenesis	4
Translation elongation factor activity - translation factor activity, nucleic acid binding	3
Transporter activity - transport	3
Water channel activity - transport - membrane	4
Protein binding	10
Mitochondrion	9
Kinase activity	4
Protein folding - cellular component	3
Membrane	3
Lipid binding - lipid transport	2

A large proportion of contigs (44.5%) fell into the category of unknown classification while contigs that link directly with stress responses constituted 3% of the total number of contigs.