Current View on Phytoplasma Genomes and Encoded Metabolism

Table 1

Overview of the four complete phytoplasma genomes and A. laidlawii.

Strain	‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ species				Acholeplasma
	asteris	asteris	australiense	mali	laidlawii
	OY-M	AY-WB	Rp-A	AT	PG-8A
Chromosome organisation	Circular	Circular	Circular	Linear	Circular
Chromosome size	853,092	706,569	879,959	601,943	1,496,992
G + C content (%)	27.76	26.89	27.42	21.39	31.93
G + C % of protein-coding genes^1	29.09	28.54	28.72	22.58	32.23
Protein-coding genes^1,2	752	776	684 (155)	481 (16)	1,380 (11)
Protein coding (%)^1	73.1	73.7	64.1	76.3	90.7
Average ORF size^1	829	776	825	955	984
Protein-coding genes/kb^1	0.881	0.949	0.777	0.799	0.921
rRNA operons	2	2	2	2	2
tRNAs	32	31	35	32	34
Accession no.	AP006628.2	CP000061.1	AM422018.1	CU469464.1	CP000896.1
Plasmid-like elements	2	4	1	0	—

¹Without pseudo genes; ²number of annotated pseudo genes is given in brackets.