Table 1.

Summary of seven Saussurea plastid genomes

	S. albifolia	S. calcicola	S. chabyoungsanica	S. diamantica	S. grandicapitula	S. polylepis	S. seoulensis
Reference	This study	This study	Cheon et al. [18]	This study	This study	Yun et al. [19]	This study
Total length (bp)	152,435	152,453	152,446	173,114	152,484	152,488	152,578
LSC length (bp)	83,387	83,399	83,397	83,482	83,431	83,417	83,441
SSC length (bp)	18,678	18,672	18,679	37,846	18,671	18,689	18,727
IRa length (bp)	25,185	25,191	25,185	25,893	25,191	25,191	25,205
Total GC content (%)	37.7	37.7	37.7	38.6	37.7	37.7	37.7
GC content of LSC	35.8	35.8	35.8	35.8	35.8	35.8	35.8
GC content of SSC	31.4	31.4	31.4	39.1	31.4	31.4	31.4
GC content of IR	43.1	43.1	43.1	42.8	43.1	43.1	43.1
Protein-coding gene number	80	80	80	80	80	80	80
rRNA gene number	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
tRNA gene number	30	30	30	32a	30	30	30
Total gene number	114	114	114	116	114	114	114

^aindicates that S. diamantica additionally has two mitochondrial tRNAs (trnC-GCA and trnM-CAU) in SSC