Complete chloroplast genome sequence and phylogenetic analysis of Syzygium malaccense

Abstract

Syzygium malaccense is native to Malaysia. It is sometimes called the malay apple, malay rose-apple, mountain rose-apple, mountain apple, water apple, or French cashew. The tree is very popular in many tropical and subtropical regions for its fruit and traditional medicine. The first complete chloroplast genome of Syzygium malaccense has been reported in this study. The complete chloroplast genome of Syzygium malaccense is 158,954 bp, composed of four regions: a large single-copy region with a size of 87,991 bp, a small single copy region with a size of 18,793 bp, and two inverted repeat regions with a size of 26,085 bp. The GC content is 36.97%. A total of 132 genes were annotated, including 84 encoding proteins, eight encoding rRNA genes, 37 encoding tRNA genes, and three encoding pseudo genes. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Syzygium aromaticum, Syzygium cumini, and Syzygium forrestii are closely related to Syzygium malaccense.

Keywords:

• Syzygium malaccense
• Syzygium malaccense
• 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 GenBank at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/, reference number MT830744.

Raw sequencing reads used in this study have been deposited in SRA with the accession PRJNA658814.