Complete chloroplast genome of Prunus yedoensis Matsum.(Rosaceae), wild and endemic flowering cherry on Jeju Island, Korea

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome sequences of the wild flowering cherry, Prunus yedoensis Matsum., which is native and endemic to Jeju Island, Korea, is reported in this study. The genome size is 157 786 bp in length with 36.7% GC content, which is composed of LSC region of 85 908 bp, SSC region of 19 120 bp and two IR copies of 26 379 bp each. The cp genome contains 131 genes, including 86 coding genes, 8 rRNA genes and 37 tRNA genes. The maximum likelihood analysis was conducted to verify a phylogenetic position of the newly sequenced cp genome of P. yedoensis using 11 representatives of complete cp genome sequences within the family Rosaceae. The genus Prunus exhibited monophyly and the result of the phylogenetic relationship agreed with the previous phylogenetic analyses within Rosaceae.

• Cerasus, endemic species
• natural hybrid
• Prunus yedoensis
• wild flowering cherry

Declaration of interest

This work was partly supported by the Korean Rural Development Administration Next-generation BioGreen21 (PJ009525), the National Research Foundation of Korea (MEST: 2014R1A2A2A01003588), and Marine Biotechnology Program (PJT200620) funded by Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Korea to HSY. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.