The complete chloroplast genome sequence of American bird pepper (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum)

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of American bird pepper (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum) is reported and characterized in this study. The genome size is 156,612 bp, containing a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,776 bp separated by a large single-copy region of 87,213 bp and a small single-copy region of 17,851 bp. The chloroplast genome harbors 130 known genes, including 89 protein-coding genes, 8 ribosomal RNA genes, and 37 tRNA genes. A total of 18 of these genes are duplicated in the inverted repeat regions, 16 genes contain 1 intron, and 2 genes and one ycf have 2 introns.

• Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum
• chloroplast genome
• plastid

Declaration of interest

This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (U0936603), Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (2008CC016), the Hundreds Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Talent Program of Yunnan Province (20080A009), a grant from the Chinese Academy of Science (KSCX2-YW-N-029), a grant from Chinese Department of Science and Technology (973 Program 2007CB815703), Frontier Grant of Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS (672705232515), and a start-up grant from Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.