Fig. 1: Comparison of genome-size diversity and quality metrics across land plant orders with sequenced medicinal plant species.

a The numbers of genome assemblies at the chromosome and non-chromosome (scaffold) levels are shown for each lineage. b Box plots showing the distribution of assembly lengths of the medicinal plants in each plant order. c Box plots showing the distribution of contig N50 (the sequence length of the shortest contig at 50% of the total assembly size) for the medicinal plants in each plant order. d Box plots showing the distribution of complete BUSCO percentages of the published medicinal plant genomes in each plant order. Each dot represents a plant, which is color-coded based on ploidy level (b) or sequencing technology used (c, d). For all box plots, the box defines the interquartile range (25th–75th percentile), and the center line represents the median; whiskers extend to the maximum and minimum data values.