Table 3
Highest-quality publicly available plant genomes
a
Species
• 1C DNA content
b
•
common name
• chromosome
number
b
• angiosperm group
(MC
¼ monocot; DC
¼ dicot) if
applicable)
• family
• sequencing
strategy
c
Total
assembly
length
(Kb)
Total
assembly
gap length
(Kb)
Scaffold
number
Scaffold
N50
(Kb)
Contig
number
Contig
N50
(Kb)
Gene
number
NCBI assembly accession
•
genome paper reference
Chlorophyte algae
Ostreococcus lucimarinus
• 13.2
Mb
d
• n
¼ 21
d
• Bathycoccaceae
•
S
13,205 0
21 Genome complete
7640
e
GCF_000092065.1
• Palenik
et al. (2007)
Micromonas commoda
• 20.9 Mb
f
• n
¼ 17
f
• Mamiellaceae
• S
21,109 0
17 Genome complete
10,014
e
GCA_000090985.2
• Worden
et al. (2009)
Bathycoccus prasinos
• 15 Mb
g
•
n
¼ 19
f,g
• Bathycoccaceae
• S
15,074 36
19
956
41
663 7828
e
GCF_002220235.1
• Moreau
et al. (2012)
Ostreococcus tauri
• 13 Mb
h
•
n
¼ 20
h
• Bathycoccaceae
• S
12,917 10
20
770
497
15 7942
e
GCF_000214015.2
• Derelle et al.
(2006)
Angiosperms
Arabidopsis thaliana
• 157 Mb
•
thale cress
• n
¼ 5
• DC
•
Brassicaceae
• B
119,668 186
7
23,460
102 11,195 37,898
e
GCF_000001735.3
• Arabidopsis
Genome Initiative (2000)
Oryza sativa
(japonica)
• 489 Mb
•
Japanese rice
• n
¼ 12
• MC
•
Poaceae
• B
374,423 117
58
29,958
305
7,711 32,945
e
GCF_001433935.1
• International Rice Genome Sequencing
Project (2005)
Brachypodium distachyon
•
355 Mb
• stiff brome
• n
¼ 5
• MC
•
Poaceae
• S
272,133 607
28
59,385
486
6,404 28,924
e
GCF_000005505.2
• International Brachypodium Initiative
(2010)
Schrenkiella parvula
• 180 Mb
i
•
saltwater cress n
¼ 7
j
• DC
•
Brassicaceae
• 4I
137,073 3
1,463
9,613
1,490
5,289 30,419
k
GCA_000218505.1
•
Dassanayake et al. (2011)
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