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. 2021 Aug 9;6(9):2610-2612.
doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1961631. eCollection 2021.

Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the complete chloroplast genome of Amaranthus viridis (Amaranthaceae)

Dian-Bin Ding  1 , Qi-Hang Pang  1 , Xiao-Jun Han  1 , Shou-Jin Fan  2
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Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the complete chloroplast genome of Amaranthus viridis (Amaranthaceae)

Dian-Bin Ding et al. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. .

Abstract

Amaranthus viridis is an important medicinal herb. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome (plastome) of A. viridis was repotred. It was a circular molecular of 150,452 bp in length and consists of a large single-copy region (LSC, 83,832 bp), a small single-copy region (SSC, 17,914 bp), and two inverted repeats (IRs, 24,353 bp for each) regions. The overall GC content was 36.6%. This plastome encodes 113 unique genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNAs, and four rRNAs. The phylogenetic tree of 18 Amaranthaceae chloroplast genomes supported that A. viridis was closely related to A. hybridus.

Keywords: Amaranthus viridis; Phylogeny; plastome.

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Figure 1.
A Maximum-Likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree based on 18 Amaranthaceae plastomes was shown. Bootstrap support values are shown next to branches.
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