Table 1 Summary of RNA-seq and de novo assembly of T. aestivum unigenes

Number of clean reads

408749724

Number of ≥200 bp transcripts

330912

Number of ≥2000 bp transcripts

48158

Number of ≥1000 bp transcripts

131321

Mean length of transcripts (bp)

1071

Max length of transcripts (bp)

20603

N50 length of transcripts (bp)

1684

Number of Unigenes

121210

Number of ≥2000 bp Unigenes

8553

Number of ≥1000 bp Unigenes

23137

Mean length of Unigenes (bp)

695

Max length of Unigenes (bp)

20603

N50 length of Unigenes (bp)

1174