The complete chloroplast genome of a halophyte glasswort Salicornia europaea

Tianlong Liu; Zhicong Zuo; Yingying He; Jinlai Miao; Jia Yu; Changfeng Qu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2275833

The complete chloroplast genome of a halophyte glasswort Salicornia europaea

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Oct 30;8(11):1165-1168. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2275833. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Tianlong Liu^{1

2}, Zhicong Zuo^{1

2}, Yingying He^{2

3}, Jinlai Miao^{2

3}, Jia Yu¹, Changfeng Qu^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
² Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China.
³ Marine Natural Products Research and Development Laboratory, Qingdao Key Laboratory, Qingdao, China.

Abstract

Salicornia europaea is a salt-tolerant eudicot species in the Amaranthaceae family that is widely distributed in coastal wetlands and other saline-alkali lands. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of S. europaea was determined using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology. The genome was 153,163 bp in length with 132 genes, including 87 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The genome displayed a quadripartite structure consisting of a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,953 bp, a large single-copy (LSC) region of 84,566 bp, and two inverted repeats (IRs) of 49,644 bp, respectively. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that Salicornia europaea exhibited the closest relationship with S. bigelovii. This study contributes to the pool of salt-tolerant gene species and serves as a valuable reference for further research on Salicornia.

Keywords: Salicornia europaea; chloroplast genome; halophyte.

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangxi [AA21196002], Qingdao Key Technology Research and Industrialization Demonstration [23-1-4-xxgg-20-nsh], and Jinan “20 new Universities and Colleges” Funded Projects [202228041].