Table 1.

List of plant species, chromosome number, genome size, and number of genes and ESTs.

S. no.	Crop	Chromosomes	Genome size*	Gene*	ESTs*
1	Arabidopsis thaliana	5	119.14 MB	33,410	15,29,262
2	Glycine max	20	950.06 MB	46,430	14,59,820
3	Medicago truncatula	9	278.68 MB	53,425	2,69,238
4	Vitis vinifera	19	303.08 MB	26,346	3,62,193
5	Populus trichocarpa	19	307.84 MB	45,778	89,943
6	Brachypodium distachyon	5	271.14 MB	32,255	1,28,092
7	Sorghum bicolor	10	659.22 MB	36,338	2,09,828
8	Zea mays	10	2.06 GB	53,764	20,19,105
9	Oryza sativa	12	372.31 MB	67,393	2,02,458

*Data resource: PlantGDB (ftp://ftp.plantgdb.org/download/Genomes/); Phytozome (http://www.phytozome.net/).