Table 3.
Green algal and land plant chloroplast genomes examined in this study
| Green alga/land plant | Size (bp) | IR size (bp) | Genes (no.) a | Introns (no.) b | GenBank accession no. |
| Charophyceae | |||||
| Chara vulgaris | 184,933 | 10,919 | 127 | 2/16 | GenBank:NC_008097 |
| Chaetosphaeridium globosum | 131,183 | 12,431 | 125 | 1/17 | GenBank:NC_004115 |
| Chlorokybus atmophyticus | 152,254 | 7,640 | 138 | 1/0 | GenBank:DQ422812 |
| Mesostigma viride | 118,360 | 6,057 | 137 | 0 | GenBank:NC_002186 |
| Staurastrum punctulatum | 157,089 | - | 121 | 1/7 | GenBank:NC_008116 |
| Zygnema circumcarinatum | 165,372 | - | 125 | 1/12 | GenBank:NC_008117 |
| Land Plants | |||||
| Acorus calamus | 153,821 | 25,697 | 110 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_007407 |
| Amborella trichopoda | 162,686 | 26,651 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_005086 |
| Anthoceros formosae | 161,162 | 15,744 | 120 | 2/20 | GenBank:NC_004543 |
| Arabidopsis thaliana | 154,478 | 26,264 | 110 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_000932 |
| Atropa belladonna | 156,687 | 17,031 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_004561 |
| Calycanthus floridus | 153,337 | 23,296 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_004993 |
| Cucumis sativus | 155,293 | 24,753 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_007144 |
| Eucalyptus globulus | 160,286 | 26393 | 109 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_008115 |
| Huperzia lucidula | 154,373 | 15,314 | 119 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_006861 |
| Lactuca sativa | 152,765 | 25,033 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_007578 |
| Lotus japonicus | 150,519 | 25,156 | 109 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_002694 |
| Marchantia polymorpha | 121,024 | 10,058 | 120 | 1/19 | GenBank:NC_001319 |
| Nicotiana tabacum | 155,939 | 25,341 | 110 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_001879 |
| Nymphaea alba | 159,930 | 25,177 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_006050 |
| Oenothera elata | 163,935 | 27,807 | 109 | 1/18 | GenBank:NC_002693 |
| Oryza sativa | 134,525 | 20,799 | 108 | 1/17 | GenBank:NC_001320 |
| Panax ginseng | 156,318 | 26,071 | 111 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_006290 |
| Phalaenopsis aphrodite | 148,964 | 23,787 | 99 | 1/18 | GenBank:NC_007499 |
| Physcomitrella patens | 122,890 | 9,589 | 116 | 1/20 | GenBank:NC_005087 |
| Pinus thunbergii | 119,707 | - | 106 | 1/15 | GenBank:NC_001631 |
| Saccharum officinarum | 141,182 | 22795 | 108 | 1/17 | GenBank:NC_006084 |
| Spinacia oleracea | 150,725 | 25,073 | 110 | 1/19 | GenBank:NC_002202 |
| Triticum aestivum | 134,545 | 20,703 | 108 | 1/17 | GenBank:NC_002762 |
| Zea mays | 140,384 | 22,748 | 108 | 1/17 | GenBank:NC_001666 |
| Prasinophyceae | |||||
| Nephroselmis olivacea | 200,799 | 46,137 | 128 | 0 | GenBank:NC_000927 |
| Trebouxiophyceae | |||||
| Chlorella vulgaris | 150,613 | - | 112 | 3/0 | GenBank:NC_001865 |
| Ulvophyceae | |||||
| Oltmannsiellopsis viridis | 151,933 | 18,510 | 104 | 5/0 | GenBank:NC_008099 |
| Pseudendoclonium akinetum | 195,867 | 6,039 | 105 | 27/0 | GenBank:NC_008114 |
| Chlorophyceae | |||||
| Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | 203,827 | 22,211 | 94 | 5/2 | GenBank:NC_005353 |
| Scenedesmus obliquus | 161,452 | 12,022 | 96 | 7/2 | GenBank:NC_008101 |
| Stigeoclonium helveticum | 223,902 | - | 97 | 16/5 | GenBank:DQ630521 |
a Genes present in the IR were counted only once. Pseudogenes, unique ORFs and intron ORFs were not taken into account.
b Numbers of group I and group II introns are given before and after the slash, respectively.