The complete chloroplast genome of Malvaviscus penduliflorus (Malvaceae)

Abstract

In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Malvaviscus penduliflorus using high-throughput Illumina sequencing reads. The resulting plastome assembly displayed a typical quadripartite structure with a total length of 160,332 bp, containing a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 26,313 bp separated by a large single-copy region (LSC) of 88,750 bp and a small single-copy region (SSC) of 18,956 bp. The M. penduliflorus cp genome contained 128 genes, and its overall GC content was 36.96%. Phylogenetic analysis among M. penduliflorus and five other Malvaceae species demonstrated that M. penduliflorus was closely related to Urena procumbens and Hibiscus cannabinus. The M. penduliflorus cp genome presented in this study will lay a good foundation for further genetic and genomic studies of the genus Malvaviscus as well as Malvaceae.

Keywords:

• Chloroplast genome
• malvaceae
• malvaviscus penduliflorus
• phylogenetic analyses

Acknowledgments

The authors are really grateful to the open raw genome data form public database.

Authors’ contributions

Rong Liu and Dan Wang conceived and supervised the project. Rong Liu and Li Xie analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript. All of the authors have read and approved the final manuscript and have agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). The coauthors do not have any conflict of interest to declare. The authors alone are responsible for the content and composition of the paper. Additionally, fresh and mature leaves from an adult plant of M. penduliflorus were taken with the permission of the community management department.

Data availability statement

The genome sequence data supporting the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) under the accession no. NC_066439. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA885282, SRR21748890, and SAMN31083560, respectively.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the opening project of a key laboratory of coarse cereal processing, Ministry of Agriculture and rural affairs (No: 2020CC015), the project of Sichuan’s education department (No: JG2021- 1107) as well as the Natural Science Project of Sichuan Nursing Vocational College (No: 2023ZRZ03).