Table 2.

Sequencing and CAP3 assembly statistics of Spartina alterniflora transcriptome

Library	Total no. of reads sequenced	Reads assembled into contigs	Reads as singlets	% redundancya	Total unigenes
Leaf Control	239,851	27,691	45,861	80.87 %	73,552
Leaf Stress	219,968	24,237	44,109	79.94 %	68,346
Root Control	215,127	15,792	56,407	73.77 %	72,199
Root Stress	95,744	5411	53,952	43.64 %	59,363
Total	770,690	73,131	200,329		273,460

^aRedundancy calculated as the number of reads assembled/total number of reads