Table 2.
Comparison of Cichorium intybus ESTs with sequences from other species
| Database | Number of sequences | Number of submitted chicory ESTs | Blast type (E-value) | Number of matches | % of matches | |
| Asteraceae | Lettuce (CGPD) | 19,523 assembled ESTs | 3,348 | N (1E-30) | 2,040* | 69 |
| Sunflower (CGPD) | 18,031 assembled ESTs | 202* | ||||
| Zinnia (PGDB) | 15,859 assembled ESTs | 71* | ||||
| Arabidopsis (AtGDB) | 26,719 translated coding sequences | 3,348 | X (1E-5) | 2,905 | 87 | |
| GeneBank NR | >100 gigabases | 3,348 | X (1E-5) | 2,794 | 84 |
*The 3348 ESTs of chicory were sequentially submitted to BlastN searches against assembled ESTs from lettuce, sunflower and zinnia.