Table 1

Current (12/01/04) statistics for Floral Genome Project cDNA libraries, EST sequences and unigene builds. We will perform 10,000 EST sequencing reactions for each taxon listed in the top portion of the table and 2000 ESTs for each taxon in the bottom portion of the table.

Taxon
Primary Titre (pfu)
Amplified Titre (pfu/ml)
Avg Insert size (bp)
ESTs to date
aUnigenes
bObserved Redundancy

Libraries for deep sequencing






Welwitschia mirabilis (m) – Gymnosperm
3.25E+05
6.00E+08
1382
3732
2771
34.7%
Amborella trichopoda (m) – Basal angiosperm
2.24E+06
1.37E+10
1611
4047
6099
41.5%
Amborella trichopoda (f)
4.98E+06
1.40E+10
1031
4442


Nuphar advena (Water lily, Spadderdock) – Basal angiosperm
2.00E+06
3.20E+10
1134
8442
6205
36.1%
Acorus americanus (Sweet flag) – Basal monocot.
2.80E+06
6.00E+09
1083
5883
3067
28.8%
cAsparagus officinalis (m) – Transformable nongrass monocot
1.50E+06
1.20E+10
1468
5188
4560
61.5%
Asparagus officinalis (f)
1.30E+06
1.40E+10
1200
2174


Persea americana (Avocado) – Cultivated magnoliid
2.74E+06
2.57E+10
1349
8735
5314
41.3%
Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Poplar, Yellow Poplar) – Transformable lumber species
3.00E+06
2.00E+10
1346
9531
6520
46.2%
Saruma henryi (Upright Wild Ginger) – member of Aristolochiaceae with bipartite perianth
1.97E+06
1.67E+10
1587
3230
2631
21.8%
Eschscholzia californica (California poppy) – Transformable basal eudicot
7.00E+06
1.68E+11
1702
9079
6015
46.18%
Libraries for shallow sequencing






dCucumis sativus (m) (Cucumber) – rosid
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1107
1648
23.5%
dCucumis sativus (f)
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928


Ribes americanum (Black currant)
2.58E+06
2.25E+10
1200
2238
1791
25.0%
eVaccinium corymbosum (Blueberry) basal asterid
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1758
1549
13.5%



Total:
70,514
48,170


m indicates library constructed from male tissues; f for female tissues.

aUnigene numbers are shown in the first line for taxa with multiple libraries.

bObserved redundancy was measured for each taxon as (EST# – Unigene #)/Unigene#.

c5188 ESTs from the male Asparagus library were sequenced in collaboration with Mike Havey (University of Wisconsin) and Chris Town (TIGR).

dMale and female Cucumis flower bud libraries described by Perl-Treves et al [71]

eVaccinium young inflorescence library was provided by Jeannine Rowland (USDA) [72].

Albert et al. BMC Plant Biology 2005 5:5   doi:10.1186/1471-2229-5-5