The complete chloroplast genome of apple rootstock 'M9'

Xueqing Zhao; Ming Yan; Yu Ding; Xuesen Chen; Zhaohe Yuan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1624642

The complete chloroplast genome of apple rootstock 'M9'

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 10;4(2):2187-2188. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1624642.

Authors

Xueqing Zhao^{1

2}, Ming Yan^{1

2}, Yu Ding^{1

2}, Xuesen Chen³, Zhaohe Yuan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
² College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China.

Abstract

The dwarf M9 (Malus domestica 'M9') rootstock is the most widely available Malus rootstock, here we report the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of 'M9' rootstock. The size of the complete cp genome was 159,926 bp, with the large-copy (LSC, 88,065 bp) regions, small single-copy (SSC, 19,157 bp) regions, and two inverted repeat regions (IRs, 26,352 bp each). It contained 110 genes, including 78 protein-coding genes, 28 transfer RNA genes (tRNA), and 4 ribosomal RNA genes (rRNA). A phylogenetic tree demonstrated that 'M9' rootstock was closely related to M. hupehensis, M. baccata, M. prunifolia, M. micromalus, and M. tschonoskii.

Keywords: Apple; M9; complete chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.