Table 3.

Putative function of the most abundant sequences present in the RT and SP cDNA libraries

Library	No. of ESTs in TC	Functional annotation	Species	E value	Size (bp)
RT	41	Unknown function homologue to Orf107a	Arabidopsis thaliana	2·10−27	521
	37*,a	Metallothionein	Betula platyphylla	6·10−26	651
	32*	Trypsin inhibitor	Theobroma cacao	2·10−93	929
	28*	Pathogenesis-related protein 4b	Oryza sativa	1·10−34	1058
	13	No homology	–	–	222
	12	Ribosomal RNA	Poncirus trifoliata	0·0	893
	10	Unknown function	Oryza sativa	6·10−22	386
	9*,b	Metallothionein	Petunia × hybrida	2·10−16	489
	9	No homology	–	–	829
	9	Dehydrin	Vaccinium corymbosum	2·10−6	618
SP	144*,a	Metallothionein	Betula platyphylla	6·10−26	669
	49	Unknown function homologue to Orf107a	Arabidopsis thaliana	1·10−27	266
	29*,b	Metallothionein	Petunia × hybrida	3·10−16	535
	26*	Ankyrin repeat protein	Arabidopsis thaliana	1·10−9	625
	13	Metallothionein	Gossypium hirsutum	1·10−24	495
	10*	Ankyrin repeat protein	Arabidopsis thaliana	7·10−7	505
	8	Unknown function	Oryza sativa	7·10−4	494
	8	Copper chaperone	Arabidopsis thaliana	2·10−28	631
	6	Nuclear factor 1	Mus musculus	1·10−10	447
	6	Unknown function	Homo sapiens	1·10−8	497

* Sequences expressed differentially as described in the Table 4.

^{a, b} Same letters correspond to sequences homologous between RT and SP libraries.