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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
The complete chloroplast genome of Castanea mollissima 'Chuizhili'
Shijie Zhang1, Cancan Zhu1, Xiaoqian Bai1
1Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Abstract:
The Castanea mollissima 'Chuizhili' is an important variety of C. mollissima in breeding for dwarf chestnut and ornamental trees due to the weeping characteristic in China. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of C. mollissima 'Chuizhili' was identified and sequenced by using Illumina sequencing data. The genome size is 160,799 bp, with a large single-copy (LSC, 90,430 bp) region, a small single-copy (SSC, 18,997 bp) region, and separated by a pair of 25,686 bp inverted repeat (IR) regions. A total of 130 genes are successfully annotated, including 83 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 2 pseudo-genes. The phylogenetic relationships revealed that C. mollissima 'Chuizhili' is closely related to Castanea henryi in Fagaceae.
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