Complete plastome sequence from a cultivar of Diospyros nigra (J.F.Gmel.) M.R. Almeida (Ebenaceae): a nutritious fruit tree with high economic value cultivated in Hainan province, China

Xu Xin-Xin; Hong-Xin Wang; Da-Juan Chen; Xiu-Rong Ke; Zhi-Xin Zhu; Hua-Feng Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2072243

Complete plastome sequence from a cultivar of Diospyros nigra (J.F.Gmel.) M.R. Almeida (Ebenaceae): a nutritious fruit tree with high economic value cultivated in Hainan province, China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 May 9;7(5):789-790. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2072243. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Xu Xin-Xin¹, Hong-Xin Wang^{1

2}, Da-Juan Chen¹, Xiu-Rong Ke¹, Zhi-Xin Zhu¹, Hua-Feng Wang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable Utilization of Tropical Bioresources, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China.
² Zhai Mingguo Academician Work Station, Sanya University, Sanya, China.
³ Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya, China.

Abstract

Diospyros nigra (J.F.Gmel.) M.R.Almeida is a rare tree in the family Ebenaceae. The species is native to South America, while having been introduced to Florida and Texas (USA), India, Java and Madagascar. Additionally, this species is distributed in Guangdong Province and the southwest portion of Hainan Province, China. Here, we report and characterize the complete plastome of a cultivar of D. nigra. The length of the complete plastome is 157,168 bp, including 131 genes consisting of 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. The plastome has the typical structure and gene content of angiosperms, including two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 26,095 bp, a large single copy (LSC) region of 86,610 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,386 bp. The total G/C content of the plastome in D. nigra is 37.4%. The complete plastome sequence of D. nigra will make contributions to the conservation genetics of the species, as well as to phylogenetic studies in Ebenaceae.

Keywords: Diospyros nigra; Ebenaceae; genome structure; plastome.

Grants and funding

This study is funded by the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund [ZDYF2022XDNY190] and Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [421RC486].