The complete chloroplast genome of Salsola abrotanoides (Chenopodiaceae), a desert halophyte shrub in China

Xinyin Li; Qianqian Zhang; Jiecuo Duo; Yuanwu Yang; Xia Ju; Ruijun Duan; Huiyan Xiong

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1903353

The complete chloroplast genome of Salsola abrotanoides (Chenopodiaceae), a desert halophyte shrub in China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Mar 24;6(3):1152-1153. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1903353.

Authors

Xinyin Li¹, Qianqian Zhang¹, Jiecuo Duo², Yuanwu Yang¹, Xia Ju¹, Ruijun Duan³, Huiyan Xiong¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Qinghai University, Xining, PR China.
² Tsaldam Vocational and Technical College, Delinha, PR China.
³ College of Eco-Environmental Engineering, Qinghai University, Xining, PR China.

Abstract

Salsola abrotanoides, one of the dominant plant species of desert vegetation, adapts well to the arid, saline, and alkaline environment in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Here, we reported the complete chloroplast sequence and characters of S. abrotanoides based on the Illumina NovaSeq Platform. The chloroplast genome is 151,622 bp in length, containing a pair of inverted repeated (IR) regions of 23,701 bp, a large single copy (LSC) region of 84,658 bp, and a small single copy (SSC) region of 19,562 bp. And the chloroplast genome sequence encodes 130 genes totally, including 85 mRNA genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. S. abrotanoides is the first species of Genus Salsola and the chloroplast sequence will provide a valuable resource for the phylogenetic studies of Chenopodiaceae.

Keywords: Chenopodiaceae; Salsola abrotanoides; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Scientific Research Project of College Students, College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Qinghai University under Grant [NKX201907]; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [31560052]; the project of Qinghai Science & Technology Department under Grant [2020-ZJ-785].