Table 1 Chromosome-wise distribution and density of the simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci in the spinach genome.

From: Genome-wide simple sequence repeats (SSR) markers discovered from whole-genome sequence comparisons of multiple spinach accessions

Chromosome

Chromosome size (bp)

No. of SSRs

No. of SSRs/Mb

No. of polymorphic SSRs

No. of polymorphic SSRs/Mb

Chr01

50,662,332

5200

102.6

862

17.0

Chr02

60,576,128

5444

89.9

820

13.5

Chr03

113,461,288

10,269

90.5

1277

11.3

Chr04

122,945,393

10,737

87.3

1529

12.4

Chr05

69,506,562

5649

81.3

777

11.2

Chr06

46,407,490

4856

104.6

721

15.5

Total

463,559,193

42,155

5986

Average

90.9

12.9