The complete chloroplast genome of Tripsacum laxum (Gramineae)

Lin Luo; Hui Lin; Hai-Lin Luo; Qiao-Qi Li; Dong-Mei Lin; Guo-Dong Lu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1899872

The complete chloroplast genome of Tripsacum laxum (Gramineae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Oct 15;6(11):3207-3208. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1899872. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Lin Luo¹, Hui Lin¹, Hai-Lin Luo¹, Qiao-Qi Li¹, Dong-Mei Lin¹, Guo-Dong Lu¹

Affiliation

¹ National Engineering Research Center of Juncao, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Abstract

Tripsacum laxum (Guatemalan grass) is a perennial fodder grasses, which is commonly growing in large parts of Africa for a source of livestock feed. It has a high economic value as a forage. In this study, we obtained a complete chloroplast genome of T. laxum by Illumina sequencing. The results showed a circular genome of 140,556 bp, including the large single copy region (LSC, 82,939 bp), the small single-copy region (SSC, 12,573 bp), and a pair of 22,522 bp inverted repeat regions (IRs). The circular genome contained 120 genes, including 74 protein-coding genes, eight ribosomal RNA genes and 38 tRNA genes. Evolutionary relationship analysis indicates that T. laxum is more closely related to previously reported T. dactyloides.

Keywords: Tripsacum laxum; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Letter from the Department of Education [2018] No. 126 Juncao Ecological Industry Provincial and Ministry Co-construction of Collaborative Innovation Center; Major project of Fujian Province [grant number 2021NZ0101]; Cross-discipline Fusion for Promotion of the High-quality Development of JUNCAO Science and Industry [grant number XKJC-712021030].