Progress in Understanding and Sequencing the Genome of Brassica rapa

Table 1

Comparison of gene, TE, and SSR abundances in B. rapa and A. thaliana.

Contents	B. rapa	A. thaliana	References
Genome size (Mb)	529	146	[4, 27]
Gene number	4300∼63000	26,207	[16, 39, 43]
TE abundance (%)^(1)	13.8	6∼7	[39, 44]
SSR number	≈110,000 (one SSR/4.8 kb)	≈36,756 (one SSR/3.2 kb)	[39, 45]

⁽¹⁾Coverage of TEs in the genome.