The complete chloroplast genome of the Chinese banyan tree Ficus microcarpa

Enwen Lin; Zhenyang Liao; Xiuming Xu; Xingtan Zhang; Jingping Fang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1993097

The complete chloroplast genome of the Chinese banyan tree Ficus microcarpa

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Feb 28;7(3):423-425. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1993097. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Enwen Lin¹, Zhenyang Liao², Xiuming Xu³, Xingtan Zhang², Jingping Fang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.
² Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.
³ Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

Abstract

Banyan tree or Ficus microcarpa is a large perennial plant with extraordinary aerial roots from the Moraceae family. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome sequence of F. microcarpa was assembled using PacBio data. The chloroplast genome size is 141,611 bp, consisting of a large single-copy (LSC) region and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 101,835 bp and 9,676 bp, respectively, which are separated by a pair of 15,050 bp inverted repeat (IR) regions. The genome includes 74 protein-coding genes, 43 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. A phylogenetic tree reconstructed by 25 complete chloroplast genomes reveals that F. microcarpa is mostly related to Ficus racemosa.

Keywords: Ficus; Moraceae; PacBio; chloroplast genome; phylogenomic tree.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Education & Research Foundation for Young and Middle-aged Teachers from Fujian Provincial Department of Education; the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Number [14906096]; and the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China under Grant Number [2019J0102].