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Table 1 Sources of tissues and 454 sequencing results per tissue for the American and Chinese chestnut EST Datasets.

From: Chestnut resistance to the blight disease: insights from transcriptome analysis

Library

Tissues Sampled

Genotype

# 454 plates

Ave. 1 Read Length, bp

Total # Reads

Total bp Sequence

ACCanker

American chestnut cankers (infected stems)

TACF2, BA69

1

101

129,508

13,080,308

ACHS1

American chestnut healthy stems

CAES3, Wisneiwski

3/4

247

222,939

29,828,910

ACHS2

American chestnut healthy stems

CAES, Watertown

3/4

246

254,810

38,165,054

ACWP1

American chestnut whole plant tissues, pooled

CAES, Wisneiwski

1/4

239

47,653

11,380,607

ACWP2

American chestnut whole plant tissues, pooled

CAES, Watertown

1/4

221

33,288

7,364,484

AC Totals

5 cDNA libraries

3 genotypes

3

210.8

688,198

99,819,363

CCCanker

Chinese chestnut var Nanking, cankers

TACF, VA37

1

101

235,635

23,799,135

CCMHS

Chinese chestnut var Mahogany, healthy stems

TACF, BX316

3/4

246

228,594

56,051,191

CCNHS

ChinesecChestnut var Nanking, healthy stems

TACF, GR119

3/4

247

259,859

64,271,926

CCWP1

Chinese chestnut var Nanking, whole plant tissues

TACF, GR119,

1/4

242

60,445

14,643,040

CCWP2

Chinese chestnut var Mahogany whole plant tissues

TACF, BX316;

1/4

246

53,939

13,249,397

CC Total

5 cDNA libraries

3 genotypes

3

205

838,472

172,014,689

  1. 1, Ave, average; 2, TACF, The American Chestnut Foundation's Meadowview VA Farm; 3, CAES, Connecticut Agricultural Research Station. (NB: Canker tissue RNAs were sequenced with the GS20 while other RNAs were sequenced using the FLX version of the 454 system)