Table 1.

Information on the sequenced amaranth chloroplast genomes and genome features.

Accession no.	Species	Collection origina	Genome size (bp)	Coverage depth (×)	% of reads mapping	LSC length (bp)	SSC length (bp)	IR length (bp)	GC content (%)
PI 558499b	A. hypochondriacus L.	Nebraska, USA	150,518	146	3.8	83,873	17,941	24,352	36.61
PI 477913	A. cruentus L.	Mexico	150,555	302	7.9	83,908	17,945	24,351	36.60
PI 481125c	A. hypochondriacus	India	150,556	283	7.4	83,908	17,946	24,361	36.60
PI 511731	A. hypochondriacus	Mexico	150,555	166	4.4	83,906	17,947	24,351	36.60
PI 540446	A. hypochondriacus	Pakistan	150,499	208	5.5	83,850	17,947	24,351	36.61
PI 605351	A. hybridus L.	Greece	150,552	239	6.2	83,903	17,947	24,351	36.60
PI 619259	A. hypochondriacus	Nepal	150,559	194	5.1	83,910	17,947	24,391	36.60
PI 642741	A. caudatus L.	Bolivia	150,556	495	12.9	83,919	17,957	24,340	36.60

Note: IR = inverted repeat; LSC = large single copy; SSC = small single copy.

^aAll origin information is derived from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/). Several accessions were collected in the Old World, although all originated in the Americas according to Sauer (1967).

^b‘Plainsman’.

^cClassified as A. hypochondriacus based on Maughan et al. (2011).