The complete chloroplast genome of Acanthus ilicifolius, an excellent mangrove plant

Li Xu; Xin-Rui Wang; Kuo Sun; Ting Yu; Jiu-Heng Xu; Ping-Xing Ding; Li-Ming Tang; Dong-Xu Zhang; Wen-Bin Guan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1884022

The complete chloroplast genome of Acanthus ilicifolius, an excellent mangrove plant

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Apr 4;6(4):1283-1284. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1884022.

Authors

Li Xu¹, Xin-Rui Wang¹, Kuo Sun¹, Ting Yu¹, Jiu-Heng Xu¹, Ping-Xing Ding¹, Li-Ming Tang², Dong-Xu Zhang³, Wen-Bin Guan¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
² Forestry Department of Guangxi, Nanning, China.
³ Protected Agricultural Technology Development Center, Shanxi Datong University, Datong, China.

Abstract

Acanthus ilicifolius is an excellent mangrove plant. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of A. ilicifolius, a salt tolerant plant of Acanthaceae, was generated. The length of chloroplast genome is 150,758 bp, in which the large-single copy region (LSC) is 82,963 bp, the small-single copy (SSC) region is 17,191 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat (IRa and IRb) regions is 25,302 bp. The chloroplast genome contains 128 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, eight rRNA genes, and 36 tRNAs genes, with a total GC content of 38%. Phylogenetic analysis showed that A. ilicifolius was closely related to A. ebracteatus, both species belonged to Acanthus genus.

Keywords: Acanthaceae; Acanthus ilicifolius; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.