Table 1 Characteristics of the genome assemblies that were used in this study

Source of Strain, Reference

Maize, Missouri, 1978 [66]

Maize, Brazil, 1988 [119]

Sorghum, Indiana, 1982 [6]

NCBI accession no. of assembly

ACOD01000001

MRBI01000001

MQVQ01000001

Reference

[69]

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Strain

M1.001

M5.001

CgSl1

Total contig length (Mb)

51.6

48.8

64.8

Number of Contigs

1,151

3,280

12,943

Number of scaffolds

653

n/a^a

548

N₅₀ contig (kb)

228.96

69.85

41.05

N₅₀ scaffold (Kb)

579.19

n/a^a

339.27

GC-content (%)

49.12

49.8

46.45

Protein-coding genes

12,006

15,052

13,311

Conserved Genes [71]

248

248

247

Mean transcript length (bp)

1399.1

1224.9

1389.9

Number of exons

32967

64326

35389

Mean number of introns/gene

1.745

3.2126

1.65

Mean Intergenic distance (bp)

2691

1599

2224.7

Percentage coding

32.81

36.89

29.5

Percentage repetitive DNA in genome assembly

3.12

2.83

3.14