A complete chloroplast genome of bamboo cultivar Phyllostachys edulis f. bicolor (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)

Wenxuan Jing; Bo Hu; Rou Wan; Qirong Guo

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2204168

A complete chloroplast genome of bamboo cultivar Phyllostachys edulis f. bicolor (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Apr 24;8(4):532-535. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2204168. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Wenxuan Jing¹, Bo Hu¹, Rou Wan¹, Qirong Guo¹

Affiliation

¹ Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

Phyllostachys edulis f. bicolor, a beautiful ornamental bamboo species, is a new variant of P. edulis, with yellow stems and green grooves between nodes. In this study, we assembled and annotated the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of this variety for the first time. The complete cp genome size of P. edulis f. bicolor was 139,678 bp in length and a total of 130 unique genes were annotated, including 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA encoding genes, and eight rRNA encoding genes. Phylogenetic analysis results provided evidence that P. edulis f. bicolor was closely related to P. edulis 'heterocycla'. This study contributes to better understanding of intraspecific type evolution of P. edulis.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Phyllostachys edulis f. bicolor; Phyllostachys edulis f. heterocycla; phylogenetic.

Grants and funding

This work was kindly supported by research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 31971648], and the Talent Introduction Project of Nanjing Forestry University [Grant No. GXL2018001].