Table 1.

Summary of complete chloroplast genomes

	S. persica	A. tetracantha	A. arabicum	A. thaliana	B. nigra	C. rubella	C. papaya	M. oleifera	R. carnosula	R. cretica	C. limprichtiana	T. hassleriana
Size (bp)	153,379	153,415	154,234	154,478	153,633	154,601	160,100	160,600	154,328	154,188	153,746	157,688
Overall GC contents	36.7	36.1	36.6	36.3	36.4	36.5	36.9	36.8	36.1	36.3	36	35.8
LSC size in bp	83,818	83,841	83,401	84,170	83,552	83,990	88,749	88,563	83,463	83,274	83,293	87,509
SSC size in bp	17,683	17,488	17,716	17,780	17,695	17,855	18,701	18,881	18,130	18,169	17,763	18,677
IR size in bp	25,939	26,043	26,558	26,264	26,193	26,462	26,325	26,570	26,367	26,372	26,262	25,804
Protein coding regions size in bp	72,281	78,288	79,482	77,925	79,881	78,489	78,636	79,881	78,708	76,734	50,010	79,755
tRNA size in bp	2811	2784	2789	2791	2790	2792	2792	2739	2826	2826	2623	2863
rRNA size in bp	9052	9054	8929	8929	9050	9052	9050	9050	9050	9050	8929	9400
Number of genes	131	131	128	129	132	130	131	129	130	132	113	131
Number of protein coding genes	86	84	83	85	87	84	84	85	85	85	71	85
Number of rRNA	8	8	8	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	8
Number of tRNA	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	36	37	37	35	38