The complete chloroplast genome of Vaccinium fragile (Vacciniaceae), a shrub endemic to China

Wei Guo; Lei Luo; Yanyan Huang; Guohua Li; Xinhua Wang; Tiantian Cheng; Zhongkui Sun; Feng Wang; Lin Zhang; Wei Li

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1627948

The complete chloroplast genome of Vaccinium fragile (Vacciniaceae), a shrub endemic to China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 11;4(2):2310-2311. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1627948.

Authors

Wei Guo¹, Lei Luo¹, Yanyan Huang¹, Guohua Li¹, Xinhua Wang¹, Tiantian Cheng¹, Zhongkui Sun², Feng Wang¹, Lin Zhang¹, Wei Li³

Affiliations

¹ Taishan Academy of Forestry Sciences, Taian, Shandong, P. R. China.
² Taian Time Garden Technology Development Co., Ltd, Taian, Shandong, P. R. China.
³ College of Landscape Architecture and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China.

Abstract

Vaccinium fragile, an endemic species in China, is a plant of the family Vacciniaceae. It is an evergreen shrubby tree distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Tibet province of China. The chloroplast (cp) genome of V. fragile is 169,480 bp in size containing 123 unique genes, including 8 rRNA genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 77 protein-coding genes (PCGs). Phylogenetic analysis exhibited that both V. macrocarpon and V. fragile were phylogenetically closer to Arbutus unedo than other taxa in this study.

Keywords: Illumina sequencing; Vaccinium fragile; chloroplast genome.