Research Article

Construction, Characterization, and Preliminary BAC-End Sequence Analysis of a Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Library of the Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis)

Table 1

Composition of the Camellia sinensis tea BAC library, CSBCBa.

Size selection
range (kb)
Number of
clones
Average insert
size (kb)
Genome
equivalent
coverage
Insert size
range (kb)
Proportion of the
whole library
size (%)

Total Library190–350401,28013513.58–316100%
Sublibrary 1 (Ligation B2)300–35040,3201401.48–31610.05
Sublibrary 2 (Ligation B1)240–300160,8961405.632–18540.10
Sublibrary 3 (Ligation A2)190–240200,0641306.519–18049.85