Characterization the complete chloroplast genome of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) from China

Abstract

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is native to Peru and Mexico. It is an important vegetable crop of the world, which ranks next to potato in importance. In addition, tomato is one of the most widely cultivated fruit and vegetables in the world. In this study, we obtained the complete chloroplast genome sequence of Tomato using BGISEQ-500 sequencing. Its chloroplast genome size has 155,474 bp, containing a large single copy region (85,856 bp), a small single copy region (18,374 bp), and a pair of IR regions (25,622 bp). The overall GC contents of the chloroplast genome were 38.0%. This circular genome contains 142 annotated genes, including 89 protein-coding genes, 45 tRNAs and 8 rRNAs. The phylogenetic relationship analysis using Maximum Likelihood method showed that tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) much closely related to two kinds of wild tomatoes Solanum pimpinellifolium and Solanum cheesmaniae. This complete chloroplast genomes can be subsequently used for the genetic breeding and useful to study the evolutionary processes in Lycopersicon.

Keywords:

• Solanum lycopersicum L
• tomato
• lycopersicon
• chloroplast genome
• phylogenetic relationship analysis

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This research was supported by the Education Department of Jilin Province [JJKH20180669KJ] and the Agricultural Science and Technology Achievements Conversion of Central Finance [2014GB2B100026].