The complete chloroplast genome of Vaccinium oxycoccos (Ericaceae)

Xinrong Qiao; Qingyi Gu; Run Ye; Jing Cai; Nailiang Zhu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2252943

The complete chloroplast genome of Vaccinium oxycoccos (Ericaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Sep 4;8(9):942-947. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2252943. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Xinrong Qiao¹, Qingyi Gu¹, Run Ye¹, Jing Cai¹, Nailiang Zhu¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Xinyang Agriculture and Forestry University, Xinyang, Henan, China.

Abstract

Vaccinium species have great significance as fruit crops due to their economic and food values. Here we report the chloroplast genome of V. oxycoccos. The chloroplast genome of V. oxycoccos was 177,088 bp in length with a GC content of 36.74%. LSC, SSC, and IR regions were 104,139 bp, 3031 bp, and 34,959 bp in length, respectively. The chloroplast genome contained 105 different genes, including 73 protein-coding genes, 4 rRNA genes, and 28 tRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that V. oxycoccos was closely related to V. microcarpum in the family Ericaceae. This chloroplast genome not only enriches the genome information of Vaccinium, but also will be useful in the evolution study of the family Ericaceae.

Keywords: Vaccinium; chloroplast genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the following: General Program of Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province of China [No. 232300420065], the Innovative Research Team of Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources and Series Products Development of Ta-pieh Mountains in Xinyang Agriculture and Forestry University [No. XNKJTD-009].