Statistics for selected plant genomes
| Maize | Rice | Arabidopsis | Medicago | |
| AVG gene size(kb) | 2892 | 2713 | 2287 | 2407 |
| AVG gene density/10kb | 0.32 | 1.66 | 2.74 | 2.31 |
| AVG exon size(bp) | 245 | 340 | 286 | 469 |
| Predicted genes | 457 | 60666 | 32739 | 6821 |
| AVG exons per gene | 4.39 | 4.32 | 9.30 | 3.28 |
| AVG introns per genee | 3.39 | 3.32 | 8.30 | 2.28 |
| Total Nr. of BACs | 100 | - | 1578 | 1133 |