The complete chloroplast genome of the national tree of Peru, quina (Cinchona officinalis L., Rubiaceae)

Abstract

Here, we report the first complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Cinchona officinalis. This cp genome has a 156,984 bp in length with typical quadripartite structure, containing a large single copy (LSC) region (83,929 bp) and an 18,051 bp small single-copy (SSC) region, separated by two inverted repeat (IR) regions (27,502 bp). The total GC content was 37.75%. Quina tree chloroplast genome possesses 135 genes that consisted of 89 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA, eight rRNA, and one pseudogene. Phylogenetic analysis showed that C. officinalis is sister to C. pubescens and sister to them is Isertia laevis; all belong to the Cinchonoideae sub-family.

Keywords:

• Phylogenomics
• Rubiaceae
• chloroplast genome
• quina tree

Acknowledgement

We thank Mr. Ivan Ucharima for cultivating live plants of C. officinalis at the Climate Change Laboratory of the Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that supports this study is openly available in Genbank of NCBI under the accession number MZ151891 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MZ151891). The associated Bioproject, Biosample and SRA numbers are PRJNA728344, SAMN19075496, and SRR14516337, respectively.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria of Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego.