The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Poaceae), a cereal and medicinal crop

Sang-Ho Kang; Hyun Oh Lee; Myung Ju Shin; Nam-Hoon Kim; Beom-Soon Choi; Manu Kumar; Asjad Ali; Sang-Choon Lee; Chang-Kug Kim

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1507653

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Poaceae), a cereal and medicinal crop

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Oct 23;3(2):980-981. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1507653.

Authors

Sang-Ho Kang¹, Hyun Oh Lee², Myung Ju Shin², Nam-Hoon Kim², Beom-Soon Choi², Manu Kumar³, Asjad Ali⁴, Sang-Choon Lee², Chang-Kug Kim¹

Affiliations

¹ Genomics Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.
² Phyzen Co, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Bioindustry and Bioresource Engineering, Plant Engineering Research Institute, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Southern Cross Plant Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia.

Abstract

Coix lacryma-jobi is a cereal and medicinal crop belonging to the Poaceae family. This study characterized complete chloroplast genome sequence of a Korean cultivar Johyun of C. lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen through the de novo hybrid assembly with Illumina and PacBio genomic reads. The chloroplast genome is 140,863 bp long and composed of large single copy (82,827 bp), small single copy (12,522 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (each 22,757 bp). A total of 123 genes including 87 protein-coding genes, 32 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes were predicted in the genome. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed a close relationship of C. lacryma-jobi with species in the Panicoideae subfamily of the Poaceae family.

Keywords: Coix lacryma-jobi; cereal crop; chloroplast genome; medicinal plant; poaceae.