1. Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of a purple passion flower variety ‘Pingtang No.1’ (Passiflora edulia Sims) in China and phylogenetic relationships
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Xiao-jing Hu, Xue-Lian Yang, and Xiu-Qin Long
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Phylogenetic tree ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Passiflora edulia Sims ,phylogenetic relationship analysis ,Passion ,Passilfora ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,Passiflora ,Chloroplast ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Botany ,Genetics ,chloroplast genome ,Molecular Biology ,Mitogenome Announcement ,Research Article ,media_common - Abstract
Passion flower (Passiflora edulia Sims) is an important fruit that is of great economic importance. In this study, we presented the chloroplast genome of a purple passion flower variety ‘Pingtang No.1’ in China using BGISEQ-500 sequencing. Its chloroplast genome is 152,621 bp in size. It contains a pair of inverted repeat regions of 25,989 bp, each separating a small single copy region of 13,352 bp and a large single copy region of 85,141 bp. Totally, 111 unique genes, including 77 protein coding genes, 30 tRNAs, and 4 rRNAs, were identified and annotated in the chloroplast genome. Phylogenetic maximum likelihood analysis based on chloroplast genomes of 35 plant species, mainly from the genus Passiflora indicated that ‘Pingtang No.1’ and yellow passion flower ‘IAPAR-123’ (Passiflora edulis) cluster together. The chloroplast genome can be used for a better understanding of the evolutionary relationships of plant species of the family Passifloraceae, especially the genus Passiflora.
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- 2019
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