/Differential gene expression analysis was conducted for the combination of leaf-vs-root. Reads from leaf and root samples were mapped onto the master assembly CDS sequences using bwa-0.7.5a to identify expressed genes. In the leaf-vs-root comparison, a total of 9795 downregulated and 9795 upregulated genes were expressed. Among these, 413 were significantly downregulated and 228 were significantly upregulated, based on the log2FC value, where log2FC > 0 indicated upregulation and log2FC < 0 indicated downregulation. Graph 6 illustrates the heatmap for the top 50 expressed genes. In the heatmap, blue colour represents significantly upregulated genes with higher base mean values in roots, while red and yellow colours represent significantly downregulated genes with higher base mean values in leaves compared to roots.