Table 1. Statistics for peach ESTs generated by 454 GS-FLX sequencing.

	Red petals	White petals	Total
Number of reads	719,556	837,041	1,556,597
Average read length (bp)	443.3	448	445.8
Total bases (bp)	318,983,491	374,962,455	693,945,946
Number of reads in contigs	675,990	783,159	1,459,149
Number of reads as singletons	28,444	35,141	63,585