The complete mitochondrial genome of the biodiesel plant Jatropha curcas L.

Abstract

Jatropha curcas (Linnaeus, 1753) is a plant species in the order Malpighiales and the family Euphorbiaceae and is native to the tropical regions of America, such as Mexico and Argentina. Currently, this plant species inhabits tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Jatropha has been widely used as a biofuel plant to produce high-quality diesel engine fuel. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of J. curcas was assembled into 561,839 bp circular nucleotides with a GC content of 44.6%. The mitochondrial genome of J. curcas comprises 33 known protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, three rRNA genes, one ncRNA gene, and 85 open reading frame genes. Phylogenetic analysis showed this species is closely related to the castor bean (Ricinus communis).

Keywords:

• Jatropha curcas
• Malpighiales
• Euphorbiaceae
• biodiesel plant
• mitochondrial genome

Acknowledgements

We especially thank Won Joo Hwang for providing a picture of Jatropha curcas.

Author contributions

S.S. and J.H. conceptualized the study and conducted bioinformatics analyses. The manuscript was prepared by S.S. and revised by J.H.

Ethical approval

Any data from NCBI SRA does not need ethical approval.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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/ under accession no. OQ603497. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA399212, SRR5974849, SRR5974850, and SAMN07527279, respectively.

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Funding

This study was supported by the ‘2022 Research Grant’ from Kangwon National University [202203110001] to S.S. and a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean Government (MSIT) [No. 2021R1C1C1004233] to J.H.