Plastome data analysis of Cucumis melo subsp.agrestis

Mohammad Ajmal Ali; Khalid Mashay Al-Anazi; Waquar Akhtar Ansari; Joongku Lee

doi:10.6026/97320630017646

Plastome data analysis of Cucumis melo subsp.agrestis

Bioinformation. 2021 Jun 30;17(6):646-651. doi: 10.6026/97320630017646. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Mohammad Ajmal Ali^#¹, Khalid Mashay Al-Anazi^#², Waquar Akhtar Ansari³, Joongku Lee⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh-11451, Saudi Arabia.
² Genetics Laboratory,Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh-11451, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India.
⁴ Department of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134,Republic of Korea.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

It is of interest to refine the taxonomic status of C. melo ssp. agrestis using its plastome data. The chloroplast size and GC% was found to be 1,56,016 bp and 36.92% respectively in Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis. The plastome of C. melo subsp. agrestis comprises of two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 25,797 bp each. It consisted of 133 genes with 88 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNA genes and 37 tRNA genes. Analysis of the C. melo ssp. agrestis plastome data will help breeders to improve the yield the crop.

Keywords: Cucumis melo ssp. agrestis; Cucurbitaceae; melon; plastome.