De novo transcriptome assembly of drought tolerant CAM plants, Agave deserti and Agave tequilana

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Summary of the A. tequilana and A. deserti transcriptome assemblies

Species	Total sequencing*	No. of Agave loci	No. Agave contigs	N50 length	Sum length of Agave contigs	No. of protein-coding loci
A. tequilana	293.5 Gbp	139,525	204,530	1387 bp	204.9 Mbp	34,870
A. deser	184.7 Gbp	88,718	128,869	1323 bp	125.0 Mbp	35,086

Additional details on the depth of Illumina sequencing are in Additional file 1: Tables S2–S6.
*Sequence data from unusable reads where the Illumina TruSeq index could not be deciphered are not included.

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