The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia confuse Craib 1914, an economically valuable oil crop

Si Wu; Mei Ying Yang; Meng Long Fan; Ying Zhang; Xin Lei Li; Heng Fu Yin; Ji Yuan Li

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2087547

The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia confuse Craib 1914, an economically valuable oil crop

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Jun 23;7(6):1099-1100. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2087547. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Si Wu^{1

2}, Mei Ying Yang¹, Meng Long Fan¹, Ying Zhang¹, Xin Lei Li¹, Heng Fu Yin¹, Ji Yuan Li¹

Affiliations

¹ Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou, China.
² Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, P R of China.

Abstract

Camellia confuse Craib 1914 is an industrially valuable oil crop from southern China for which little genetic information is available. Here, we found that its complete chloroplast genome is a circular sequence (156,905 bp) with a large single-copy region (LSC) of 67,724 bp, a small single copy region (SSC) of 18,400 bp, and two inverted repeats (IRs). In total, 130 genes were identified, including 86 protein-coding genes, 36 transfer RNAs, and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis showed that C. confusa is close to C. meiocarpa. These results provide valuable information for accelerating research on the evolution of camellias.

Keywords: Camellia confusa; chloroplast genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Zhejiang Basic and Public Welfare Research Program [LGN20C160006] and National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFD1000500].