Table 4. Coding regions and their parsimony-informative rate.

No.	Region	Length	Aligned length	Conserved sites	No. Pars. uninf.	Pars. inf.	Pars.inf. %	C.I.	R.I.
1	accD	1530	1610	1414	130	66	4.10	0.91	0.79
2	ccsA	969	975	859	63	53	5.44	0.88	0.79
3	cemA	690	690	632	40	18	2.61	0.94	0.85
4	clpP	2020	2127	1894	144	89	4.18	0.9	0.81
5	matK	1521	1527	1342	119	66	4.32	0.94	0.88
6	ndhA	2152	2307	2015	190	102	4.42	0.90	0.77
7	ndhI	501	501	470	18	13	2.59	0.92	0.87
8	ndhK	678	678	592	75	11	1.62	0.95	0.67
9	petB	1413	1444	1285	103	56	3.88	0.88	0.74
10	petD	1188	1269	1160	58	51	4.02	0.92	0.88
11	rbcL	1434	1458	1340	52	66	4.53	0.78	0.67
12	rpoA	1008	1014	896	93	25	2.47	0.92	0.72
13	rpoC1	2802	2918	2030	778	110	3.77	0.94	0.66
14	rpoC2	4158	4176	3763	288	125	2.99	0.92	0.79
15	rps16	1109	1238	1034	129	75	6.06	0.92	0.82
16	ycf1	5304	5568	3585	1505	478	8.58	0.89	0.60
17	ndhD	1503	1539	1420	79	40	2.60	0.85	0.64
18	ndhF	2250	2260	1983	173	104	4.60	0.89	0.78
19	rpoB	3183	3183	2965	140	76	2.39	0.91	0.82

Length: refers to sequence length in Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus

Aligned length: refers to the alignment of nine Asteraceae considered in the comparative analysis (see Materials and Methods)

Pars.: parsimony

Uninf. uninformative

Inf.: informative

C.I.: consistency index

R.I.: retention index