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. 2023 Sep 12;132(4):627–654. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcad135

Table 2.

CAM species with publicly available whole-genome sequences and associated assembly statistics; BUSCO, benchmarking universal single-copy orthologue (Manni et al., 2021).

Taxon1 CAM type2 Genome size Scaffold N50 Scaffold L50 Complete Embryophyta BUSCOs (%)
Isoëtaceae
Isoëtes taiwanensis De Vol (Wickell et al., 2021)
Aquatic strong CAM 1.65 Gb 17.4 Mb Not reported 94.53
Asphodelaceae
Aloe vera (L.) Burm.F. (Jaiswal et al., 2021)
Strong CAM (Winter and Holtum, 2002) 12.93 Gb 14.6 kb Not reported 74.6
Orchidaceeae
Cymbidium crassifolium Herb. (Fan et al., 2023; reported as Cymbidium mannii Rchb.f.)
Strong CAM 2.88 Gb 22.7 Mb Not reported 97.0
Dendrobium nobile Lindl. (Xu et al., 2022) C3 + CAM (Qiu et al., 2015) 1.16 Gb 64.5 Mb 8 96.2
Dendrobium officinale Kimura & Migo (Yan et al., 2015) C3 + CAM (Zou et al., 2018; reported as D. catenum Lindl.) 1.35 Gb 76.5 kb 4697 Not reported
Dendrobium chrysotoxum Lindl. (Zhang et al., 2021) C3 + CAM (Qiu et al., 2015) 1.37 Gb 67.8 Mb 8 90.3
Phalaenopsis equestris (Schauer) Rchb.f. (Cai et al., 2015) Strong CAM (Zhang et al., 2016) 1.16 Gb 359 kb 523 Not reported
Vanilla planifolia Andrews (Hasing et al., 2020) Strong CAM (Silvera et al., 2010a) 1.48 Gb 42.0 Mb 13 93.9
Bromeliaceae
Aechmea fasciata (Lindl.) Baker (Li et al., 2022)
Strong CAM (Crayn et al., 2015) 359 Mb 4.68 Mb 38 93.4
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. V3 (Ming et al., 2015) Strong CAM 526 Mb 11.8 Mb 13 89.3
Crassulaceae
Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi Raym.-Hamet & H.Perrier v1.1 (Yang et al., 2017)
Strong CAM 256.35 Mb 2.5 Mb 28 89.5
Kalanchoë laxiflora Baker v3.1 (Yang et al., 2017) Strong CAM 262 Mb 12.5 Mb 8 93.2
Sedum album L. (Wai et al., 2019) C3 + CAM 302 Mb 93 kb 868 97
Vitaceae
Cissus rotundifolia Vahl (Xin et al., 2022)
Strong CAM (Nelson and Sage, 2008) 350.69 Mb 27.6 Mb 5 92.4
Euphorbiaceae
Jatropha curcas L. (Ha et al., 2019)
C3 + CAM (Winter and Holtum, 2015) 414 Mb 1.5 Mb Not reported 82.5
Aizoaceae
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. (Shen et al., 2022)
Facultative CAM 377.97 Mb 40.5 Mb 5 98.0
Cactaceae
Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose (Copetti et al., 2017)
Strong CAM (Nobel and Hartsock, 1986) 1.30 Gb 61.5 kb 4575 91
Lophocereus schottii (Engelm.) Britton & Rose (Copetti et al., 2017) Strong CAM (Mooney et al., 1974) 1.47 Gb 9.3 kb 21 671 74
Pachycereus pringlei (S.Watson) Britton & Rose (Copetti et al., 2017) Strong CAM (Mooney et al., 1974) 1.41 Gb 5.4 kb 32 562 61
Pereskia horrida DC. (Copetti et al., 2017; reported as P. humboltii Britton & Rose) C3 + CAM (Martin and Wallace, 2000) 980 Mb 4.4 kb 28 266 52
Stenocereus thurberi (Engelm.) Buxb. (Copetti et al., 2017) Strong CAM (Huber et al., 2018) 1.42 Gb 10.5 kb 20 352 71
Selenicereus undatus (Haw.) D.R.Hunt (reported as Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) D.R.Hunt) (Chen et al., 2021) Strong CAM (Wang et al., 2019b) 1.41 Gb 127.2 Mb 670 93.83
Portulacaceae
Portulaca amilis Speg. (Gilman et al., 2022)
C4 + CAM 403.89 Mb 42.6 Mb 5 96.9
Portulaca oleracea L. (Wang et al., 2023) C4 + CAM 1.13 Gb 35.1 Mb 11 98.0

1Genome assembly version 1.0 unless otherwise noted.

2Evidence of CAM is provided under the Taxon column unless provided here.

3Eukaryota BUSCOs were used to benchmark Isoëtes taiwanensis (Wickell et al., 2021) and Hylocereus undatus (Chen et al., 2021).