Characterization of the complete plastome of Atriplex centralasiatica (Chenopodiaceae), an annual halophytic herb

Xue-Jie Zhang; Ning Wang; Luo-Yan Zhang; Shou-Jin Fan; Xiao-Jian Qu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1638329

Characterization of the complete plastome of Atriplex centralasiatica (Chenopodiaceae), an annual halophytic herb

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 13;4(2):2475-2476. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1638329.

Authors

Xue-Jie Zhang¹, Ning Wang¹, Luo-Yan Zhang¹, Shou-Jin Fan¹, Xiao-Jian Qu¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Lab of Plant Stress Research, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan, Shandong, China.

Abstract

Atriplex centralasiatica, an annual halophytic herb, is one of the most important Chinese herbal medicines, forages and indicator plants for saline-alkali soil. In this study, we report the complete plastome of A. centralasiatica. The plastome was 152,237 bp in length and comprises a large single-copy region (83,721 bp), a small single-copy region (18,096 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (25,210 bp). It encodes 113 unique genes, including 79 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 30 tRNAs and 4 rRNAs. The overall GC content of this plastome was 37.3%. Phylogenomic analysis based on 21 plastomes revealed that A. centralasiatica was closely related to the genus Chenopodium.

Keywords: Atriplex centralasiatica; phylogenomics; plastome.