Characterization of the complete plastid genome of Camellia amplexicaulis (Theaceae)

Abstract

Camellia amplexicaulis (Pit.) Cohen-Stuart is a shrub or small tree that extensively cultivated throughout Vietnam and beyond, which is now considered to extinct in the wild. Here, the whole plastid genome of C. amplexicaulis was assembled using Illumina paired-end sequencing reads. The plastid genome is 157,203 bp in length with a typical quadripartite structure, containing two copies of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,133 bp), a large-single copy (LSC) region (86,644 bp), and a small-single copy (SSC) region (18,293 bp). A total of 114 unique genes were encoded, of which 80 are protein-coding genes, 30 are tRNA genes, and four are rRNA genes. The phylogenetic result indicates C. amplexicaulis is closely related to Camellia szechuanensis C. W. Chi.

Keywords:

• Camellia
• Illumina sequencing
• plastome
• phylogeny

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, reference number MT317095.

Additional information

Funding

This research was supported by the Natural Science Fund of Guangdong under grant [number 2015A030313795].