Complete chloroplast genome of the hot desert herb Fagonia indica (Zygophyllaceae) from south-central Arabia

Mohammad Ajmal Ali; Mohammad S Elshikh; Soo-Yong Kim; Fahad Al-Hemaid; Joongku Lee; Dorjay Lama; Abhijit Chhetri; Tapan Kumar Pan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1687358

Complete chloroplast genome of the hot desert herb Fagonia indica (Zygophyllaceae) from south-central Arabia

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Nov 8;4(2):3904-3905. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1687358.

Authors

Mohammad Ajmal Ali¹, Mohammad S Elshikh¹, Soo-Yong Kim², Fahad Al-Hemaid¹, Joongku Lee³, Dorjay Lama⁴, Abhijit Chhetri⁴, Tapan Kumar Pan⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² International Biological Material Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, St Joseph's College, Darjeeling, India.
⁵ University Department of Botany, Tilka Manji Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, India.

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome sequences of the hot desert herb Fagonia indica (Zygophyllaceae) is being reported in this study. The total plastome length was 128,379 bp (GC content 34.02%). The gene order in F. indica was found similar to the angiosperm except for the loss of one copy of the IR and by the presence of a single, large inversion that reverses the order of the genes between rbcL and rps16. A total number of 115 unique coding genes which includes 80 protein-coding gene, 31 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes were annotated. The phylogenetic analysis of representative plastomes from the Roisds revealed two distinct clades of Krameriaceae and Zygophyllaceae.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Fagonia indica; Krameriaceae; South-Central Arabia; Zygophyllaceae.