Table 1 Length distribution of contigs, transcripts, and unigenes in Nymphaea ‘King of Siam’ petals transcriptome

200-300

19,842,599 (99.50 %)

50,671 (15.40 %)

36,424 (32.38 %)

300-500

37,313 (0.19 %)

45,986 (13.98 %)

26,673 (23.71 %)

500-1000

33,056 (0.17 %)

60,487 (18.38 %)

23,243 (20.66 %)

1000-2000

20,027 (0.10 %)

80,138 (24.36 %)

14,821 (13.18 %)

2000+

10,181 (0.05 %)

91,723 (27.88 %)

11,324 (10.07 %)

Total number

19,943,175

329,005

112,485

Total length

845,487,394

490,152,433

94,130,265

N50 length

43

2,418

1,496

Mean length

42.39

1489.8

836.83