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Analysis of Cucurbita ficifolia (Cucurbitaceae) chloroplast genome and its phylogenetic implications
Tao Zhang1, Jun-Jun Xie1, Jie Zhang1
1College of Horticulture and Landscape, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
Abstract:
The figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché), is a member of the Cucurbitaceae. Figleaf gourd genotypes are exclusively used as a rootstock for cucumber owing to their high physiological compatibility with cucumber. In this study, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of C. ficifolia was assembled. The cp genome of C. ficifolia was 157,631 bp in length, it consists of a pair of inverted repeats (IRa and IRb) regions (25,638 bp) separated by the large single-copy (LSC, 88,211 bp) and small single-copy (SSC, 18,144 bp) regions. The cp genome encodes 111 unique genes, including 80 protein-coding genes, 27 transfer RNA genes, and four ribosomal RNA genes. The overall GC content of C. ficifolia cp genome was 37.2%. The phylogenetic tree of Cucurbitaceae showed that C. ficifolia was clustered into genus Cucurbita and the bootstrap value is 100%.
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