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. 2018 Mar 14;3(1):363-364.
doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1450682.

Complete chloroplast genome of glyphosate resistant Sonchus oleraceus L. from Australia, with notes on the small single copy (SSC) region orientation

James P Hereward  1 , Jeff A Werth  2 , David F Thornby  3 , Michelle Keenan  2 , Bhagirath Singh Chauhan  4 , Gimme H Walter  1
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Complete chloroplast genome of glyphosate resistant Sonchus oleraceus L. from Australia, with notes on the small single copy (SSC) region orientation

James P Hereward et al. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. .

Abstract

Sonchus oleraceus, common sowthistle, is an asteraceous weed in Australian agricultural systems and has recently developed resistance to glyphosate. We present the complete chloroplast sequence of S. oleracueus reconstructed from Illumina whole genome shotgun sequencing. This is the first complete chloroplast genome available for the genus Sonchus. The complete chloroplast sequence is 151,808 bp long. A Bayesian phylogeny of the chloroplast coding regions of the tribe Cichorieae (Asteraceae) is presented. The S. oleraceus chloroplast genome is deposited at GenBank under accession number MG878405.

Keywords: Sonchus oleraceus; glyphosate resistance; sowthistle; weed.

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Figure 1.
Phylogenetic tree produced using Bayesian estimation (Mr. Bayes) of complete chloroplast genomes from tribe Cichorieae (Asteraceae) (A), and chloroplast genomes with the Small Single Copy (SSC) region removed (B). The SSC is presented in both orientations in the same species on GenBank, and its removal produced a phylogeny much more congruent with taxonomy. Helianthus annuus was used as the outgroup, node labels indicate the posterior probability after 1 × 106 iterations.
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