“…Comparing the similarity of two genes' expression profiles, or coexpression, quantifies the joint response of the genes to various biological contexts, and highly similar expression profiles can indicate shared regulation and function (Eisen et al, 1998). The analysis of coexpression has been used successfully to identify functionally related genes, including in several crop species (Ozaki et al, 2010;Mochida et al, 2011;Swanson-Wagner et al, 2012;Zheng and Zhao, 2013;Obayashi et al, 2014;Sarkar et al, 2014;Schaefer et al, 2014;Michno et al, 2018;Wen et al, 2018), and has been used to characterize GWAS results in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) (Chan et al, 2011;Corwin et al, 2016;Angelovici et al, 2017;Lee and Lee, 2018).…”