The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Opuntia sulphurea (Cactaceae)

Jinyuan Chen; Shangzhe Zhang; Weidong Tang; Xin Du; Yang Yuan; Shengdan Wu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2035837

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Opuntia sulphurea (Cactaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Feb 10;7(2):361-362. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2035837. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jinyuan Chen^{1

2}, Shangzhe Zhang¹, Weidong Tang³, Xin Du¹, Yang Yuan⁴, Shengdan Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Grassland and Agro-ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology and School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
² College of Life Sciences, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China.
³ Gansu Desert Control Research Institute, Minqin Desert Botanical Garden, Wuwei, China.
⁴ Gansu Provincial Institute of Pharmaceutical Inspection, Lanzhou, China.

Abstract

Opuntia sulphurea Gillies ex Salm-Dyck 1834 (Cactaceae) acts as an invasive species due to its ability to survive in various environments. In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Opuntia sulphurea, which was 122,740 bp in length. The genome contained 100 genes, including 65 protein-coding genes, 31 tRNA genes and four rRNA genes. The base composition of the chloroplast genome was 32.11% A, 17.74% G, 18.34% C, and 31.80% T, resulting in an overall G + C content of 35.39%. A phylogenetic analysis across 23 species in Caryophyllales demonstrated a close relationship between Opuntia sulphurea and Opuntia quimilo.

Keywords: Cactaceae; Opuntia sulphurea; chloroplast genome.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the startup funding of Lanzhou University (S. W.).