Table 1.

Summary of plastid RNA edits in Phalaenopsis orchid

	Leaf	Flower	Commona	Total	Reportedb
Protein coding transcripts	67	69	57	79	43
1st codon position	9	10	7	12	4
2nd codon position	47	51	43	55	39
3rd codon position	11	8	7	12	0
Creation of start codon	2	2	1	3	1
Creation of stop codon	4	5	3	6	0
Nonsynonymous substitution	50	54	46	58	42
Synonymous substitution	11	8	7	12	1
Non-protein coding transcripts	43	37	22	58	1
tRNA	1	1	1	1	0
rRNA	0	0	0	0	0
Intron	4	6	2	8	0
Intergenic spacer (IGS)	38	30	19	49	1
Total	110	106	79	137	44

^aCommon RNA edits in both leaf and floral with editing status >5%

^bPreviously reported in Zeng et al. (2007)