The complete chloroplast genome of Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult

Junfeng Yang; Wenxuan Du; Yongzhen Pang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1938721

The complete chloroplast genome of Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jun 14;6(7):1966-1967. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1938721.

Authors

Junfeng Yang¹, Wenxuan Du², Yongzhen Pang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
² Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Beijing Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Agropyron desertorum is one of the most important fodder grasses which distributes in the temperate regions of the world. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of A. desertorum was sequenced. The genome was 135,459 bp in length, with a large single-copy region of 79,617 bp, a small single-copy region of 12,760 bp, and two inverted repeat regions of 21,541 bp. The genome consisted of 132 genes, including 86 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. The GC contents was 38.32%. We constructed the Maximum likelihood (ML) tree with 13 species from the Hordeinae genus, and concluded that A. desertorum was closely related to plant species of the Elymus genus in the phylogenetic tree.

Keywords: Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult.; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Nonprofit Scientific Institution [Y2020GH01-3 and 2020-YWF-ZX-07], and the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of China [ASTIP-IAS10].