The complete chloroplast genome of halophyte Kalidium foliatum (Pall.) Moq., a dominant species of desert grassland

Jingru Wang; Shuang Wu; Minghao Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2054379

The complete chloroplast genome of halophyte Kalidium foliatum (Pall.) Moq., a dominant species of desert grassland

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Mar 25;7(3):544-545. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2054379. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jingru Wang¹, Shuang Wu², Minghao Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Environmental Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Institute of Innovation Ecology & School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

Abstract

Kalidium foliatum (Pall.) Moq. is a dominant halophyte species of the desert ecosystem mainly distributed in Southeast Europe and Northwest Asia, and used as a major forage grass. Here, we report its complete chloroplast genome, assembled from the whole-genome resequencing data. The circular genome of K. foliatum is 153,773 bp in length, including a typical quadripartite structure consisting of a pair of inverted repeats (IRs; 24,991 bp) separated by large single-copy (LSC; 84,781 bp) and small single-copy (SSC; 19,010 bp) regions. The total GC content is 36.3%, and a total of 129 genes are annotated, including 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNAs, and eight rRNAs. The phylogenetic analysis has shown that K. foliatum is positioned as a sister taxon to the two Salicornia species, all belonging to the same tribe, Salicornieae.

Keywords: Complete chloroplast genome; Kalidium foliatum; halophyte; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Scientific Research Foundation of Xuzhou University of Technology [Grant No. 00799959] and [Grant No. 02900154].