Table 1

General characteristics of the genomes of P. fluorescens strains SBW25, Pf0-1 and Pf-5

P. fluorescens strain

SBW25

Pf0-1

Pf-5*

Number of bases

6,722,539 bp

6,438,405 bp

7,074,893 bp

Number of CDSs

6,009

5,741

6,144

Pseudogenes

88

9

NA

Coding percentage

88.3%

90%

88.7%

%GC

60.5

60.62

63.3

tRNAs

66

73

71

rRNA genes (clusters)

16 (5)

19 (6)

15 (5)

Intergenic repeat families

6 (with a total of 1,199 repeats)

9 (with a total of 231 repeats)

5 (with a total of 748 repeats)

*See Paulsen et al. [18]. NA = not analysed.

Silby et al. Genome Biology 2009 10:R51   doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-5-r51