The plastome reveals new insights into the evolutionary and domestication history of peonies in East Asia.

ABSTRACT:

Backgroud

Paeonia holds considerable value in medicinal, ornamental horticultural, and edible oil industries, but the incomplete state of phylogenetic research in this genus poses a challenge to the effective conservation and development of wild germplasm, and also impedes the practical utilization of existing cultivars. Due to its uniparental inheritance and lack of recombination, the plastome (i.e., plastid genome), which is a valuable molecular marker for phylogenetic analyses, is characterized by an appropriate rate of nucleotide evolution.

Methods

In this study, 10 newly assembled data and available reported data were combined to perform a comparative genomics and phylogenetics analysis of 63 plastomes of 16 Paeonia species, primarily from East Asia, which is the origin

SUBMITTER: Chen Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10165817 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature