Table 1. Analysis of starting point locations of 8,487 linearized chloroplast genomes.

Starting locations	Numbers	Percentage (%)
Start with LSC	5,952	72.33
Start in LSC	1,073	13.04
Start with IRb	15	0.18
Start in IRb	36	0.44
Start with SSC	19	0.23
Start in SSC	58	0.70
Start with IRb	5	0.06
Start in IRb	1,071	13.01
Total	8,229	100.00