Table 1 Statistics of sequenced plant genomes

From: The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)

 

Carica papaya

Arabidopsis thaliana

Populus trichocarpa

Oryza sativa (japonica)

Vitis vinifera

Size (Mbp)

372

125

485

389

487

Number of chromosomes

9

5

19

12

19

G + C content total (%)

35.3

35.0

33.3

43.0

36.2

Gene number

24,746

31,114*

45,555

37,544

30,434

Average gene length (bp per gene)

2,373

2,232

2,300

2,821

3,399

Average intron length (bp)

479

165

379

412

213

Transposons (%)

51.9

14

42

34.8

41.4

  1. *The gene number of Arabidopsis is based on the 27,873 protein-coding and RNA genes from The Arabidopsis Information Resource website (http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/genAnnotation/genome_snapshot.jsp) and recently published 3,241 novel genes6.
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