The complete chloroplast genome of Alniaria alnifolia (Siebold and Zucc.) Rushforth, 2018

Mei Yu; Jian-Wen Bu; Biao Han; Dan Liu; Chang Lu; Lei Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2116957

The complete chloroplast genome of Alniaria alnifolia (Siebold and Zucc.) Rushforth, 2018

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Sep 7;7(9):1624-1626. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2116957. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Mei Yu¹, Jian-Wen Bu¹, Biao Han², Dan Liu², Chang Lu¹, Lei Wang²

Affiliations

¹ College of Food Science and Engineering, Shandong Agriculture and Engineering University, Ji'nan, P. R. China.
² Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration Conservation and Utilization of Warm Temperate Zone Forest and Grass Germplasm Resources, Shandong Provincial Center of Forest and Grass Germplasm Resources, Ji'nan, P. R. China.

Abstract

Alniaria alnifolia (Siebold and Zucc.) Rushforth, 2018 (alternative name: Sorbus alnifolia) belongs to the genus Alniaria of the family Rosaceae and is widely distributed in northern China, Korea, and Japan. It is an essential resource used in the construction, pharmaceuticals, and food industries. It is also used to treat various diseases, such as fever, hyperglycemia, rash, asthma, bronchitis, constipation, leprosy, anemia, and other skin ailments. In this study, we sequenced a sample of A. alnifolia and determined its complete chloroplast genome. The chloroplast genome of A. alnifolia has a circular structure with a length of 159,855 bp, which includes a small single-copy region (19,409 bp), a large single-copy region (87,628 bp), and two inverted repeats (26,409 bp). The sequence had 130 genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, eight rRNA genes, and 37 tRNA genes, and the overall GC content was 36.6%. The genes trnK-UUU, rps16, trnG-UCC, atpF, rpoC1, trnL-UAA, trnV-UAC, petB, petD, rpl16, rpl2, ndhB, trnI-GAU, trnA-UGC, and ndhA contained one intron; genes clpP and ycf3 contained two introns. Phylogenetic results showed that A. alnifolia had the closest relationship with Sorbus folgneri (MK161058).

Keywords: Alniaria alnifolia; Illumina; Rosaceae; phylogenetic.

Grants and funding

The study was financially supported by The Subject of Key R&D Plan of Shandong Province (Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project), Mining and Accurate Identification of Forest Tree Germplasm Resources [2021LZGC023]. Project Funded by Postdoctoral Science Foundation “Research and development of key technologies and equipment of germplasm resource bank” [BSHCX202101].