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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of flowering banana, Musa ornata
Jin Liu1, Cheng-Wen Gao1, Ying-Feng Niu1
1Yunnan Institute of Tropical Crops, Xishuangbanna, China.
Abstract:
Musa ornata (flowering banana) is one of more than 50 species of banana in the genus Musa of the family Musaceae. As sources of resistance to pathogens exist in germplasm, M. ornata is one of the possible hybrid parents for ameliorate commercial banana varieties. Herein, we report the complete chloroplast genome of M. ornata. The total length of the chloroplast genome is 169,989 bp with 36.82% GC content. The genome consisted of 35,426 bp of a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs), 10,775 bp of small single copy region (SSC) and 88,362 bp of large single-copy region (LSC). A total of 136 functional genes were annotated, including 113 unique genes comprising 79 protein-coding genes, 4 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes and 30 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis with Musaceae and Zingiberaceae species revealed that M. ornata is most closely grouped with Musa acuminata.
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