The chloroplast genome of Spiraea thunbergii (Rosaceae)

Wanying Shen; Ji Lin; Haifeng Lin

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2135406

The chloroplast genome of Spiraea thunbergii (Rosaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Oct 27;7(10):1879-1881. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2135406. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Wanying Shen¹, Ji Lin¹, Haifeng Lin¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Abstract

Spiraea thunbergii (S. thunbergia) is a very common ornamental shrub in the garden, with important horticultural and economic value. In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of S. thunbergia into a typical quadripartite structure. The genome size and GC content of the S. thunbergia cp genome are 155,922 bp and 36.76%, respectively. It contains 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. The phylogenetic tree supported that S. thunbergii is closely related to Spiraea mongolica in the Rosaceae family. The study will provide significant genomic resource for elucidating the phylogenetic relationship of Spiraea.

Keywords: Spiraea thunbergii; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Key Research and Development plan of Jiangsu Province (Social Development) [No. BE2021716] and Jiangsu Modern Agricultural Machinery Equipment and Technology Demonstration and Promotion Project [No. NJ2021-19].