Table 2.

Whole genome sequences of some cut flowers and other ornamental species (Yagi 2018; modified)

Species	Sequencing technology	Estimated genome size	Chromosome number	References
Antirrhinum majus	HiSeq2000, PacBio	520 Mb	2n = 2x = 16	Li et al. 2019a, b
Chrysanthemum seticuspe	Illumina HiSeq 2000 and MiSeq	3.0 Gb	2n = 2x = 18	Hirakawa et al. 2019
C. nankingense	Oxford Nanopore	3.0 Gb	2n = 2x = 18	Song et al. 2018
Dendrobium catenatum	HiSeq2000	1.1 Gb	2n = 2x = 38	Zhang et al. 2016a, b, c
D. officinale	HiSeq2000, PacBio	1.3 Gb	2n = 2x = 38	Yan et al. 2015
Dianthus caryophyllus	HiSeq1000, GS FLX +	622 Mb	2n = 2x = 30	Yagi et al. 2014
Helianthus annuus	PacBio RS II	3.6 Gb	2n = 2x = 34	Badouin et al. 2017
Hibiscus syriacus	HiSeq2000	1.9 Gb	2n = 4x = 80	Kim et al. 2017
Ipomoea nil	PacBio, HiSeq2500	750 Mb	2n = 2x = 30	Hoshino et al. 2016
Petunia axillaris	HiSeq2500, PacBio	1.4 Gb	2n = 2x = 14	Bombarely et al. 2016
P. inflata	HiSeq2500, PacBio	1.4 Gb	2n = 2x = 14	Bombarely et al. 2016
Phalaenopsis equestris	HiSeq 2000	1.2 Gb	2n = 2x = 38	Cai et al. 2015
P. aphrodite	GAIIX, HiSeq	1.20 Gb	2n = 2x = 38	Chao et al. 2018
Primula veris	Hiseq2000, Miseq, Ion Proton, PacBio	479 Mb	2n = 2x = 22	Nowak et al. 2015
Rosa chinensis	HiSeq2500, PacBio	512 Mb	2n = 2x = 14 (double haploid line)	Saint-Oyant et al. 2018
R. multiflora	Illumina MiSeq and HiSeq 2000 platforms	711 Mb	2n = 2x = 14	Nakamura et al. 2018
Salvia splendens	PacBio RS II; Illumina HiSeq X Ten	711 Mb	2n = 2x = 44	Dong et al. 2018