Genome-wide transcriptomic and phylogenetic analyses reveal distinct aluminum-tolerance mechanisms in the aluminum-accumulating species buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum)

Table 1 Comparison of Illumina sequencing data with reported 454 sequencing data

	Illumina sequencing	454 sequencing
No. of reads	267,438,632	229,031
Average length of reads	100	341
Total nucleotides	26.7 billion	0.078 billion
No. of assembled contigs	39,815	25,401
Average length of contigs (Min-max)	1184 (201–25284)	703 (46–3298)
No. of reads per contig, mean	3008 (100)	7.5 (2–295)
(min-max)

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