Table 2.

Comparison of plastid genome content for Burmannia disticha and other Dioscoreales species.

	B. disticha	A.fauriei	A. spicata	D. elephantipes	D. rotundata	D. villosa	D. zingiberensis	M. luteoviride
Genome size	157,480	154,440	154,999	152,609	155,406	153,919	153,970	153,777
LSC size	81,231	83,501	83,511	82,777	85,601	83,865	83,950	82,882
SSC size	13,017	18,183	18,160	18,814	18,840	18,902	19,038	17,777
IR size	31,616	26,378	26,664	25,509	25,476	25,576	25,491	26,559
No. protein coding	78	79	79	78	78	78	78	78
No. rRNA	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
No. tRNA	29	29	29	29	29	29	29	29
No. pseudogenes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total GC (%)	34.9	37.5	37.5	37.2	37.2	37.2	37.2	37.4
GC (%) in LSC	32.3	35.5	35.4	34.9	35.2	35.0	35.1	35.2
GC (%) in SSC	28.8	31.3	31.3	31.2	30.9	31.2	31.2	31.2
GC (%) in IR	39.5	42.9	42.8	43.0	43.0	43.0	43.0	42.9