Analysis of 90 Mb of the potato genome reveals conservation of gene structures and order with tomato but divergence in repetitive sequence composition

Table 1 Statistics of BAC end sequence data in comparison to that of complete plant genomes.

	Potato BES	Tomato BES	Poplar	Grape	Arabidopsis	Rice
No. Sequences	140,259	305,429	19	19	5	12
Total Length	87 Mb	274 Mb	486 Mb	498 Mb	119 Mb	376 Mb
Average Length (nucleotides)	621	897	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
GC%	35.6	36.2	33.7	34.6	36	43.6
Repeat%	34.2	46.3	42.0¹	41.4²	14³	34.8⁴
EST Hit	7,650 (5.5%)	11,487 (3.8%)	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.

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