Characterization of expressed sequence tags obtained by SSH during somatic embryogenesis in Cichorium intybus L

BMC Plant Biology

Table 2 Comparison of Cichorium intybus ESTs with sequences from other species

Database		Number of sequences	Number of submitted chicory ESTs	Blast type (E-value)	Number of matches	% of matches
Asteraceae	Lettuce (CGPD)	19,523 assembled ESTs	3,348	N (1E-30)	2,040*	69
	Sunflower (CGPD)	18,031 assembled ESTs			202*
	Zinnia (PGDB)	15,859 assembled ESTs			71*
Arabidopsis (AtGDB)		26,719 translated coding sequences	3,348	X (1E-5)	2,905	87
GeneBank NR		>100 gigabases	3,348	X (1E-5)	2,794	84

*The 3348 ESTs of chicory were sequentially submitted to BlastN searches against assembled ESTs from lettuce, sunflower and zinnia.

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