Complete chloroplast genome of Prunus fruticosa and its implications for the phylogenetic position within Prunus sensulato (Rosaceae)

Abstract

Prunus fruticosa is a wild species of Prunus distributed across the central Eurasia. Here, we reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of P. fruticosa (GenBank accession number: MT916286). The cp genome was 158,217 bp long, with a large single-copy region (LSC) of 86,322 bp and a small single-copy region (SSC) of 19,153 bp separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 26,371 bp. It encodes 129 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 ribosomal RNA genes. We also reconstructed the phylogeny of Prunus sensu lato using maximum likelihood (ML) method, including our data and previously reported cp genomes of related taxa. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that P. fruticosa is closely related with Prunus avium.

Keywords:

• Prunus fruticose
• Prunus sensu lato
• chloroplast genome
• phylogenomics

Disclosure statement

The authors are grateful to the opened raw genome data from public database. 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 of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reference number MT916286. The raw sequencing reads used in this study was deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under accession number PRJNA659616.

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Funding

This research was supported by Taizhou university Foundation [2017PY034], the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ19C030001], the Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province [2016F50024] and the Major scientific and technological projects for breeding new varieties of Agriculture of Zhejiang Province, China [2016C02056-12].