The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Garcinia oblongifolia (Clusiaceae)

Xiang Ma; Weifang Chen; Liang Tang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1810162

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Garcinia oblongifolia (Clusiaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Aug 25;5(3):3206-3207. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1810162.

Authors

Xiang Ma¹, Weifang Chen¹, Liang Tang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
² College of Ecology and Environment, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
³ Center for Terrestrial Biodiversity of the South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou, China.

Abstract

Garcinia oblongifolia Champ. ex Benth is rich in bioactive molecules with immense remedial qualities and has pharmaceutical potentials. In this study, we reported the complete chloroplast genome (cpDNA) of G. oblongifolia, which is 156,577 bp in length, including a large single copy region (LSC) of 85,393 bp, a small single copy region (SSC) of 17,064 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IR) regions of 27,060 bp inserted between LSC and SSC. 129 genes are encoded, including 83 protein-encoding genes, 8 ribosomal RNA genes, and 36 transfer RNA genes. The overall GC content of the chloroplast genome is 36.2%, wherein the corresponding values in the LSC, SSC and IR regions are 33.6%, 30.3%, and 42.2%, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis showed that G. oblongifolia is sister to G. gummi-gutta with strong bootstrap support.

Keywords: Clusiaceae; Garcinia oblongifolia; complete chloroplast genome.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Scientific Research Foundation of Hainan University under Grants kyqd1617 and kyqd1613. Xiang Ma is supported by a scholarship under the State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council.