SMRT sequencing of the Oryza rufipogon genome reveals the genomic basis of rice adaptation.

Asian cultivated rice is believed to have been domesticated from a wild progenitor, Oryza rufipogon, offering promising sources of alleles for world rice improvement. Here we first present a high-quality chromosome-scale genome of the typical O. rufipogon.

Deciphering tea tree chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of Camellia sinensis var. assamica.

Tea is the most popular non-alcoholic caffeine-containing and the oldest beverage in the world. In this study, we de novo assembled the chloroplast (cp) and mitochondrial (mt) genomes of C. sinensis var.

Evolution of chloroplast genomes promoted adaptation to diverse ecological habitats.

The course, tempo and mode of chloroplast genome evolution remain largely unknown, resulting in limited knowledge about how plant plastome gene and genome evolve during the process of recent plant speciation. Here, we report the complete plastomes of 22 closely related species in chronologically ordered stages and generate the first precise map of genomic structural variation, to our knowledge. The occurrence rapidity was estimated on average to be ~7 insertions and ~15 deletions per Myr.

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of flowering banana, .

(flowering banana) is one of more than 50 species of banana in the genus of the family Musaceae. As sources of resistance to pathogens exist in germplasm, is one of the possible hybrid parents for ameliorate commercial banana varieties. Herein, we report the complete chloroplast genome of .

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of wild banana, variety 'Pisang Klutuk Wulung' (Musaceae).

is a wild-type species of banana, endemic to Southern China, Eastern South Asia, and Northern Southeast Asia. The variety 'Pisang Klutuk Wulung' is one of the possible ancestral parents of modern cultivated bananas, but its wild populations are now in decline. In this study, we report the complete chloroplast genome sequence of wild banana, diploid variety 'Pisang Klutuk Wulung'.

Lowered Diversity and Increased Inbreeding Depression within Peripheral Populations of Wild Rice Oryza rufipogon.

Background: The distribution of genetic variability from the interior towards the periphery of a species' range is of great interest to evolutionary biologists. Although it has been long presumed that population genetic variation should decrease as a species' range is approached, results of empirical investigations still remain ambiguous. Knowledge regarding patterns of genetic variability as well as affected factors is particularly not conclusive in plants.

Plastid genome sequence of an ornamental and editable fruit tree of Rosaceae, Prunus mume.

Here we assembled and analyzed the complete chloroplast genome of Prunus mume, a popular ornamental and editable fruit tree of Rosaceae. The cp genome exhibited a circular DNA molecule of 157 712 bp with a typical quadripartite structure consisted of two inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb) of 26 394 bp separated by large (LSC) and small (SSC) single-copy regions of 85 861 and 19 063 bp, respectively. It encoded 112 unique genes, 19 of which were duplicated in the IR regions, giving a total of 131 genes.

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of American bird pepper (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum).

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of American bird pepper (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum) is reported and characterized in this study. The genome size is 156,612 bp, containing a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,776 bp separated by a large single-copy region of 87,213 bp and a small single-copy region of 17,851 bp.

Mitochondrial genome of the black flying fox, Pteropus alecto (Chiroptera: Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae).

In this article we report the complete mitochondrial genome of black flying fox, Pteropus alecto, with the sequence length of 16,739 bp for the first time. The mitogenome contained a total of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes and 1 control region. The base composition was A (33.

The complete mitochondrial genome of western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii (Chrysemys, Emydidae).

In this study, we report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii. The genome is found to be 16,875 bp in length and has a base composition of A (34.4%), G (13.