Overview of the length distribution of the assembled contigs and unigenes (Figure A).

Gap distribution in the assembled scaffolds and unigenes (Figure B). BLAST hits of the de novo assembled unigenes (Figure C). Eukaryotic Orthologous Group (KOG) annotation (Figure D). KEGG pathway assignment (Figure E). Length distribution of clean reads in small RNA libraries (Figure F). Classification of small RNA using PMRD and Rfam databases as reference (Figure G). Gene Ontology (GO) assignment for targets of the differentially expressed miRNAs in salt-stressed banana roots (Figure H). Dissociation curves of RT-qPCR for selected orthologous microRNAs (a-f) and Musa-specific microRNAs (g-l) (Figure I). Dissociation curves of RT-qPCR for selected target mRNAs (Figure J). Paired-end transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) output (Table A). De novo assembly of banana root transcriptomes (Table B). Coverage of the assembled transcriptomes (Table C). Mapping of the de novo assembled unigenes to the reference A-genome (Table D). Statistics of small RNA sequence reads (Table E). Annotation of orthologous miRNAs in banana root sRNAomes (Table F). Putative Musa-specific miRNAs in banana root sRNAomes (Table G). Functions of predicted salinity-responsive miRNA / mRNA targets in banana roots (Table H). Stem-loop (SL) primers used for reverse transcription (RT) of microRNAs (Table I). Primers used for real-time RT-qPCR analyses of microRNAs (Table J). Primers used for real-time RT-qPCR analyses of target mRNAs (Table K).
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