The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia brevistyla (Hayata) Coh. St. (Theaceae: Ericales) from China based on PacBio and Illumina data

Xin Yin; Bin Huang; Bo Wang; Li-An Xu; Qiang Wen

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1917320

The complete chloroplast genome of Camellia brevistyla (Hayata) Coh. St. (Theaceae: Ericales) from China based on PacBio and Illumina data

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jul 14;6(8):2246-2248. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1917320. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Xin Yin^{1

2}, Bin Huang¹, Bo Wang¹, Li-An Xu², Qiang Wen¹

Affiliations

¹ Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Camellia Germplasm Conservation and Utilization, Jiangxi Academy of Forestry, Nanchang, China.
² Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

Camellia brevistyla is an economic plant that can produce high-value edible oil in southern China. Using a combination of PacBio RS and Illumina sequencing platforms, the complete chloroplast genome of C. brevistyla was assembled and annotated. This newly deciphered chloroplast genome was 2,731 bp shorter in the ycf1 gene than the previously published C. brevistyla genome. The phylogenetic analysis fully resolved C. brevistyla in a clade with C. kissii, C. chkeiangoleosa, and C. japonica. The results not only supported the proposal to merge the sections Oleifera and Paracamellia, but also showed the close relationship between them and section Camellia.

Keywords: Camellia brevistyla; PacBio sequencing; chloroplast; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31860179], the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province, China [20201BBF61003], and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province, China [20151BAB204030].