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Plastome Report

The complete chloroplast genome of Spergularia marina (Caryophyllaceae) and its phylogenetic analysis

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Pages 1343-1346 | Received 10 Jul 2023, Accepted 24 Nov 2023, Published online: 07 Dec 2023
 

Abstract

Spergularia marina (L.) Griseb, 1843 (Caryophyllaceae) is a halophytic plant widely distributed along the southwestern coast of the Korean Peninsula. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome sequence of S. marina was determined using next-generation sequencing (NGS). The chloroplast genome of S. marina is 152,460 bp in length with 36.7% GC content. It comprises a large single-copy (LSC; 83,321), a small single copy (SSC; 17,205 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs; 25,967 bp) with a typical quadripartite structure. It consists of 131 genes, including 86 protein-coding genes, 8 ribosomal RNAs, and 37 transfer RNAs. Phylogenetic analysis using complete chloroplast genomes showed that among the 17 Caryophyllaceae species, S. marina is most closely related to Spergula arvensis. Since no complete chloroplast genome of the genus Spergularia has been reported to date, our study provides useful genetic information for determining phylogenetic relationships within the Caryophyllaceae.

Author contributions

J.K., J.M.P., and K.E. carried out sample collection, experiments, data analysis, and data curation. Preparation of the manuscript and project administration was performed by J.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Ethical approval

It is not required to obtain ethical approval or authorization to acquire a sample from the species used in the current study. All sampling and experimentation procedures used in this article were carried by the rules established by the Jeollabuk-do Forest Environment Research Institute.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The chloroplast genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are freely available in GenBank of NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ under the accession number OR038716. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA835661, SRR25000439, and SAMN35847521, respectively.

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Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.