The complete chloroplast genome of Spartina alterniflora

Abstract

Spartina alterniflora (also named as Sporobolus alterniflorus) grows in coastal salt marshes area, which has important economic value in coastal natural wetlands. In the process of this research, the whole chloroplast genome sequence of Spartina alterniflora was recovered by Illumina sequencing. The complete genome was 135,560 bp in length with 38.45% GC content which was a circular genome containing a large single-copy region (LSC, 80,828 bp), a small single-copy region (SSC, 12,714 bp) and a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs, 42,018 bp). Totally, it encodes 130 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNAs, and 8 rRNAs. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that Spartina alterniflora was closely related to Sporobolus maritimus.

Keywords:

• Spartina alterniflora
• chloroplast genome
• phylogenetic analysis

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in the NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, reference number of MT311317.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant [2018YFD0901103]; Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China under Grant [2020Q02]; and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong under Grant [ZR2019BD023].