The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Xerophyta spekei (Velloziaceae)

Vincent Okelo Wanga; Xiang Dong; Millicent Akinyi Oulo; Jacinta Ndunge Munyao; Elijah Mbandi Mkala; Paul Kirika; Robert Wahiti Gituru; Guang-Wan Hu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1698365

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Xerophyta spekei (Velloziaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Dec 13;5(1):100-101. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1698365.

Authors

Vincent Okelo Wanga^{1

2

3}, Xiang Dong^{1

2

3}, Millicent Akinyi Oulo^{1

2

3}, Jacinta Ndunge Munyao^{1

2

4}, Elijah Mbandi Mkala^{1

2

4}, Paul Kirika⁴, Robert Wahiti Gituru⁵, Guang-Wan Hu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
⁴ East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵ Botany Department, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya.

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Xerophyta spekei Baker was reported in this study. The complete chloroplast genome showed a stereotypical quadripartite structure as observed in other angiosperms with a length of 155,235 bp and divided into four parts; a pair of IRs (27,109 bp) which is separated by a small single copy (SSC) region (17,388 bp) and a large single copy (LSC) region (83,629bp). The chloroplast genome had 132 genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. Seven protein-coding genes were identified to have RNA editing.

Keywords: Velloziaceae; Xerophyta spekei; chloroplast; genome sequence; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from the Backbone Talents Project of Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS (Y655301M01),Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, CAS (SAJC201614) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970211).