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The Chloroplast Genome of Cerasus Campanulata Diverges from Other Prunoideae Genomes

Yuhao Weng¹, Liming Zhu², Yan Ma³, Hao Su¹, Lu Lu¹, Pengkai Wang¹, Jinhui Chen¹, Asif Ali¹, Renhua Zheng^4,*, Jisen Shi^1,*

1 Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics & Biotechnology of Ministry of Education, Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
2 College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, China Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037, China
3 Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, 210037, China
4 Fujian Academy of Forestry, Fuzhou, 350012, China

* Corresponding Authors: Renhua Zheng. Email: ; Jisen Shi. Email:

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2020, 89(2), 375-384. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2020.08831

Received 15 October 2019; Accepted 07 January 2020; Issue published 22 April 2020

Abstract

Cerasus Campanulata is one of several species belonging to the Prunoideae focke, a subfamily of the flowering plant Rosaceae. We investigated the details of its chloroplast genome which may reveal its genus independent of morphological determination. Here, we determined the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of C. campanulata and performed sequence analysis to reveal the presence of 18 forward repeats, 20 palindrome repeats, 2 complement repeats, 4 reverse repeats and 93 simple sequence repeats (SSRs). We additionally performed a comparative study of C. campanulata and seven other Prunoideae focke species. Then, maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analyses were carried out in the little part of Rosaceae, respectively. The results strongly support a position of C. campanulata as a member of the Cerasus in the Rosaceae family. Moreover, the complete cp genome can be used for plant phylogenetic and evolutionary studies that will provide insight into the degree of gene conservation.

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