The complete chloroplast genome of Ficus pumila, a functional plant in East Asia

DanYang Liang; Huqiang Lv; Jianxiong Liao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2031328

The complete chloroplast genome of Ficus pumila, a functional plant in East Asia

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Feb 3;7(2):326-327. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2031328. eCollection 2022.

Authors

DanYang Liang^{1

2}, Huqiang Lv^{1

3}, Jianxiong Liao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Colle ge of Tourism & Landscape Architecture (College of Plant and Ecological Engineering), Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, P. R. China.
² Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, P. R. China.
³ Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, Xi'an Research Institute of Chinese Lacquer Under All China, Xi'an, P. R. China.

Abstract

Ficus pumila L. is a climbing fig commonly used as an ornamental plant. In this study, we sequenced and assembled the complete chloroplast genome of F. pumila. The complete chloroplast genome of F. pumila is 160,248 bp in length which includes a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,871 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region of 88,405 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 20,101 bp. The overall guanine-cytosine (GC) content of F. pumila cp genome is 35.98%, while the corresponding values of LSC, SSC, and IR sequences are 33.65, 29.05, and 42.65%, respectively. The phylogenetic tree was shown to be consistent with the traditional morphology-based taxonomy of Moraceae. Five plants from the genus Ficus formed a well-supported monophyletic clade with 100% bootstrap value, and F. pumila is closely related to F. hirta, F. carica, and F. racemosa, with a support value of 97%. The complete chloroplast of F. pumila contributes to the growing number of chloroplast genomes for phylogenetic and evolutionary studies in Moraceae.

Keywords: Ficus pumila; Illumina sequencing; chloroplast genome; functional plant.

Associated data

figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.16628617.v1

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFC0507503], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [41867054], the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi, China [2018GXNSFAA281108], and the Science and Technology Major Project of Guangxi [Guike AA20161004].