The complete chloroplast genome of dalmatian pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium (Trevir.) Sch. Bip. (Asteraceae)), the source of the natural insecticide pyrethrin

Ante Turudić; Zlatko Liber; Martina Grdiša; Jernej Jakše; Filip Varga; Zlatko Šatović

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2070439

The complete chloroplast genome of dalmatian pyrethrum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium (Trevir.) Sch. Bip. (Asteraceae)), the source of the natural insecticide pyrethrin

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 May 5;7(5):775-777. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2070439. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Ante Turudić^{1

2}, Zlatko Liber^{2

3}, Martina Grdiša^{1

2}, Jernej Jakše⁴, Filip Varga^{1

2}, Zlatko Šatović^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Zagreb, Croatia.
² Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
³ Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁴ Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Abstract

Tanacetum cinerariifolium is an endemic species of the eastern Adriatic coast that synthesizes the natural insecticide pyrethrin. We have characterized the complete chloroplast genome of the species and analyzed its phylogeny within the Asteraceae family. The complete chloroplast genome of T. cinerariifolium has a size of 150,136 bp, including a large single-copy (LSC) region of 82,717 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,411bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 24,504 bp. The chloroplast genome of T. cinerariifolium encodes 108 genes, including 77 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 27 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analyses based on the complete chloroplast genomes placed T. cinerariifolium in a sister position to species of the genera Artemisia and Chrysanthemum.

Keywords: Tanacetum cinerariifolium; chloroplast genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This research has been funded by the project KK.01.1.1.01.0005 Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding, Center of Excellence for Biodiversity, and Molecular Plant Breeding (CoE CroP-BioDiv), Zagreb, Croatia.