Structural divergence and phylogenetic relationships of Ajania (Asteraceae) from plastomes and ETS.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ajania Poljakov, an Asteraceae family member, grows mostly in Asia's arid and semi-desert areas and is a significant commercial and decorative plant. Nevertheless, the genus' classification has been disputed, and the evolutionary connections within the genus have not been thoroughly defined. Hence, we sequenced and analyzed Ajania's plastid genomes and combined them with ETS data to assess their phylogenetic relationships.

Results

We obtained a total of six new Ajania plastid genomes and nine ETS sequences. The whole plastome lengths of the six species sampled ranged from 151,002 bp to 151,115 bp, showing conserved structures. Combined with publicly available data from GenBank, we constructed six datasets to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships, detecting nu

SUBMITTER: Yu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10566131 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature