Table 3. Final composition of the BAC clone backbone of the wheat 1AS physical map.

LTC contigs with >5 BACs	394
BACs in LTC contigs	21,255
Total size of LTC contigs [Mbp]	226
Included FPC contigs	321
BACs in FPC contigs	610
Total size of FPC contigs [Mbp]	48
Total number of contigs	715
Total BACs included	21,865
Total size of the backbone [Mbp]	274
Total coverage of 1AS [%]	99

The backbone consist mainly of contigs assembled with the LTC software (Frenkel et al., 2010) and is complemented with BACs from an earlier assembly with the FPC software (Soderlund et al., 1997, Table 1).