The complete chloroplast genome of Spartina alterniflora

Yang Zhao; Kai Wang; Yingying He; Yanfeng Wang; Changfeng Qu; Jinlai Miao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1776173

The complete chloroplast genome of Spartina alterniflora

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jun 12;5(3):2440-2441. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1776173.

Authors

Yang Zhao¹, Kai Wang¹, Yingying He¹, Yanfeng Wang², Changfeng Qu^{1

3}, Jinlai Miao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resource, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
² College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
³ Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China.

Abstract

Spartina alterniflora (also named as Sporobolus alterniflorus) grows in coastal salt marshes area, which has important economic value in coastal natural wetlands. In the process of this research, the whole chloroplast genome sequence of Spartina alterniflora was recovered by Illumina sequencing. The complete genome was 135,560 bp in length with 38.45% GC content which was a circular genome containing a large single-copy region (LSC, 80,828 bp), a small single-copy region (SSC, 12,714 bp) and a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs, 42,018 bp). Totally, it encodes 130 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNAs, and 8 rRNAs. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that Spartina alterniflora was closely related to Sporobolus maritimus.

Keywords: Spartina alterniflora; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant [2018YFD0901103]; Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China under Grant [2020Q02]; and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong under Grant [ZR2019BD023].