Complete chloroplast genome of Toona ciliata Roem. var. pubescens (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz (Meliaceae), 'Chinese mahogany'

Zhuchou Lu; Xin Dong; Yanru Fan; Wenjian Liu; Jianhua Dai; Xiaojiao Han; Jun Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2049987

Complete chloroplast genome of Toona ciliata Roem. var. pubescens (Franch.) Hand.-Mazz (Meliaceae), 'Chinese mahogany'

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Mar 16;7(3):495-497. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2049987. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Zhuchou Lu¹, Xin Dong^{1

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4}, Yanru Fan¹, Wenjian Liu¹, Jianhua Dai¹, Xiaojiao Han¹, Jun Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Key Laboratory of Tree Breeding of Zhejiang Province, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou, China.
² Forestry Faculty, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
³ Shandong Provincial Center of Forest and Grass Germplasm Resources, Jinan, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration Conservation and Utilization of Warm Temperate Zone Forest and Grass Germplasm Resources, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Toona ciliata var. pubescens is classified as Toona subgenus of Meliaceae family, which belongs to a large deciduous tree species. It is also a kind of precious timber tree species and has a certain medicinal value. Here, the first complete chloroplast genome (cpDNA) sequence of T. ciliata var. pubescens was determined using the Illumina sequencing platform. The cpDNA genome is 159,481 bp in length, containing a large single-copy region (LSC) of 87,176 bp and a small single-copy region (SSC) of 18,381 bp, which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) regions of 26,962 bp. The genome contains 138 genes, including 90 protein-coding genes, eight ribosomal RNA genes, and 40 transfer RNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis based on 19 cpDNA genomes showed a close relationship with Toona ciliate.

Keywords: Meliaceae; Toona ciliata var. pubescens; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of Chinese Academy of Forestry [CAFYBB2020SZ004] and the Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding [2021C02070-1 and 2021C02070-4].