SSR markers in transcripts of genes linked to post-transcriptional and transcriptional regulatory functions during vegetative and reproductive development of Elaeis guineensis

Table 1 Summary of intra-library analysis of ESTs derived from oil palm developmental related cDNA libraries used for the SSR analysis

cDNA Library Source Material	Library code	Valid ESTs	Singletons	Contigs	Unigenes	References
Shoot apex (normal)	A0	313	293	11	304	Jouannic et al. 2005
Shoot apex (abnormal¹)	A1	998	807	83	890	Jouannic et al. 2005
Early somatic embryos² (SSH) BAP³/no BAP	E1	939	807	66	873	Unpublished
Early somatic embryos² (SSH) no BAP/BAP	E2	181	179	2	181	Unpublished
Female inflorescences	FO	349	319	13	332	Jouannic et al. 2005
Male inflorescences	MO	625	548	38	586	Jouannic et al. 2005
Male inflorescences SSH normal/abnormal¹	M1	717	520	77	597	Beule et al. 2011
Male inflorescences SSH abnormal¹/normal	M2	877	706	60	766	Beule et al. 2011
embryogenic suspension cells SSH +2,4-D⁴	S3	918	717	97	814	Lin et al. 2009
embryogenic suspension cells SSH -2,4-D⁵	S4	949	762	77	839	Lin et al. 2009
Zygotic Embryos un-normalized	Z0	126	94	11	105	Jouannic et al. 2005
Zygotic Embryos SSH-normalized	Z1	384	310	34	344	Unpublished
Total ESTs analyzed		7376

¹Trees exhibited mantled flower/fruit phenotype ²Somatic embryos developed on solid media with or without ³6-benzylaminopurine for one week were used to make two libraries ⁴Embryogenic cells grown under proliferation and somatic embryogenesis ⁵initiation conditions See references for further details of material

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