The unigene sequences representing proteins important for the ABA-regulated adaptive physiological processes to chilling stress.

ESTs sequences from the forward and reverse SSH libraries of C. annuum were grouped into singletons and contigs using CAP3 assembly program and were termed as unigenes. The unigene sequences were blasted for homology search using blastn and blastx programmes at NCBI database. The search results for those unigenes representing proteins having regulatory function are summarized. EST redundancy of each unigene is also given along with the average size of the ESTs constituting the unigene. Unigenes from the forward SSH library were marked with ‘F00X’ and the corresponding unigenes from the reverse SSH library were marked with ‘R00X’.aPercentage of the fraction of ESTs representing a unigene/total no. of ESTs.bClones selected for further qPCR analysis.