Complete chloroplast genome sequence of the red silk cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)

Yong Gao; Haibo Wang; Chao Liu; Honglong Chu; Yuehui Yan; Lizhou Tang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1422399

Complete chloroplast genome sequence of the red silk cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Mar 5;3(1):315-316. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1422399.

Authors

Yong Gao^{1

2}, Haibo Wang^{1

2}, Chao Liu^{1

2}, Honglong Chu^{1

2}, Yuehui Yan¹, Lizhou Tang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China.
² Key Laboratory of Yunnan Province Universities of the Diversity and Ecological Adaptive Evolution for Animals and Plants on YunGui Plateau, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China.

Abstract

Bombax ceiba L. is a beautiful and deciduous tree with great ecological and economic importance. The third generation sequencing of chloroplast genome of B. ceiba was conducted on the PacBio sequencing platform (Pacific Biosciences). The complete chloroplast genome was 158,997 bp, which contains a large single-copy (LSC) region (89,021 bp), a small single-copy (SSC) region (21,110 bp), and two inverted repeats (IRs) (24,433 bp). In total, 116 genes were annotated, including 81 protein-coding genes, eight rRNA genes, and 27 tRNA genes. The phylogenetic tree showed that B. ceiba was closely clustered with one clade of Malvaceae.

Keywords: Bombax ceiba; complete chloroplast genome; Bombacaceae.