The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia semiserrata Chi. (Theaceae), an excellent woody edible oil and landscaping species in South China

Le Dong; Xin Yin; Bin Huang; Tian Li; Jian Jian Huang; Qiang Wen

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1976690

The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia semiserrata Chi. (Theaceae), an excellent woody edible oil and landscaping species in South China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Sep 22;6(10):3013-3015. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1976690. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Le Dong^{1

2}, Xin Yin^{1

2}, Bin Huang¹, Tian Li¹, Jian Jian Huang¹, Qiang Wen¹

Affiliations

¹ Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Camellia Germplasm Conservation and Utilization, Jiangxi Academy of Forestry, Nanchang, China.
² Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

Camellia semiserrata is a woody plant that produces excellent edible oil and is a common landscaping species in South China. The complete chloroplast genome of C. semiserrata was sequenced, assembled, annotated, and characterized using the Illumina MiSeq platform in this study. The chloroplast genome is 156,968 bp (37.32% GC) and contains a large single copy (LSC) region (86,634 bp), a small single copy (SSC) region (18,272 bp), and a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,031 bp). It encodes a total of 117 genes, including 81 protein-coding genes, four ribosomal RNA genes, and 32 transfer RNA genes. The phylogenetic tree fully resolved C. semiserrata in a clade with C. reticulata, C. mairei, and C. pitardii. This study contributes to bioinformatics and further phylogeny and conservation studies as well as provides a theoretical basis for the molecular identification of C. semiserrata.

Keywords: Camellia semiserrata; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31860179], the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province, China [20201BBF61003], and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China [20151BAB204030].