Complete chloroplast genome of Toona sinensis (Meliaceae), a goluptious 'tree vegetables'

Bingbing Liu; Junfeng Zhang; Yancai Shi

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1666664

Complete chloroplast genome of Toona sinensis (Meliaceae), a goluptious 'tree vegetables'

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 17;4(2):3025-3026. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1666664.

Authors

Bingbing Liu¹, Junfeng Zhang¹, Yancai Shi²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
² Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China.

Abstract

Toona sinensis, also known as Xiangchun in Chinese, is a popular 'tree vegetables' and famous medicinal plant with good economic value. In our study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of T. sinensis using the llumina sequencing platform. The cp genome of T. sinensis is a characteristic four-party structure with a length of 157,228 bp, which contains two 26,994 bp inverted repeats (IRs), an 85,971 bp large single copy (LSC), and a 17,269 bp small single copy (SSC). We identified a total of 126 genes, of which clouding 82 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis showed that T. sinensis was closely related to the congeneric T. ciliata.

Keywords: Toona sinensis; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.