Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)

Christopher J Grassa; Daniel P Ebert; Nolan C Kane; Loren H Rieseberg

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00981-16

Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)

Genome Announc. 2016 Sep 15;4(5):e00981-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00981-16.

Authors

Christopher J Grassa¹, Daniel P Ebert², Nolan C Kane², Loren H Rieseberg³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada cj_grassa@fas.harvard.edu.
² Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Abstract

This is the first complete mitochondrial genome sequence for sunflower and the first complete mitochondrial genome for any member of Asteraceae, the largest plant family, which includes over 23,000 named species. The master circle is 300,945-bp long and includes 27 protein-coding sequences, 18 tRNAs, and the 26S, 5S, and 18S rRNAs.