The complete chloroplast genome of the aromatic tree species Cinnamomum tenuipile Kosterm (Lauraceae)

Yongjie Zheng; YanFang Wu; Liu Xinliang; Yicun Chen; YangDong Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1997119

The complete chloroplast genome of the aromatic tree species Cinnamomum tenuipile Kosterm (Lauraceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Feb 3;7(2):312-313. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1997119. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yongjie Zheng^{1

2}, YanFang Wu², Liu Xinliang², Yicun Chen¹, YangDong Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou, China.
² Jiangxi Academy of Forestry, Nanchang, China.

Abstract

Cinnamomum tenuipile Kosterm is a precious aromatic tree in Lauraceae. To better determine its phylogenetic location with other Cinnamomum species, the chloroplast genome of C. tenuipile was sequenced. The complete chloroplast genome size is 152,761 bp, consisting of a pair of inverted repeats (IRa/b) with a length of 20,074 bp separated by a large single-copy region (LSC) and a small single-copy region (SSC) which are 93,685 and 18,928 bp, respectively. The overall GC content of the cp genome is 39.16%. The maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree showed that C. tenuipile is more closely related to C. aromaticum, providing new insight into the evolution of Lauraceae.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome Lauraceae; Cinnamomum tenuipile; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Doctoral Initiation Project of Jiangxi Academy of Forestry [2020522701] and Science and Technology Planning Project of Jiangxi Province [20202BBF63006].