The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Pennisetum flaccidum (Poaceae)

Wangsuo Liu; Yingzhong Xie; Kaiyang Qiu; Pengbo Zhao; Haiquan Li; Xueqin Hu; Hu Miao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1920497

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Pennisetum flaccidum (Poaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Aug 4;6(9):2534-2535. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1920497. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Wangsuo Liu^{1

2

3}, Yingzhong Xie^{1

2}, Kaiyang Qiu^{1

2}, Pengbo Zhao¹, Haiquan Li¹, Xueqin Hu¹, Hu Miao¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, PR China.
² Ningxia Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Prataculture and Animal Husbandry, Yinchuan, PR China.
³ Ningxia Grape Wine and Desertification Prevention Technical College, Yinchuan, PR China.

Abstract

Pennisetum flaccidum Grisebach is a typical high-quality forage and adrought-tolerant grass. In this study, we firstly reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of P. flaccidum, which was 138,336 bp in length, including a pair of inverted repeats (IR: 22,293 bp), a large single copy (LSC: 81,329 bp), and a small single copy (SSC: 12,421 bp) region. A total of 131 genes were annotated, containing seven rRNA genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 86 protein-coding genes. The GC content of the cp genome was 38.63%. The maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree indicated that P. flaccidum was closely related to P. cetaceum in Poaceae.

Keywords: Pennisetum flaccidum; Poaceae; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic tree.

Grants and funding

Financial support for this study was provided by the National Key Research and Development Project of China [2016YFC0500505], National Natural Science Foundation of China [42001095], Ningxia Key Research and Development Project[2019BEB04011], Project for High-Level Overseas Talents returning to China [[2019] 160] and Ningxia Natural Science Foundation [2020AAC03273], and Project for High Level Overseas Talents returning to China.