Chloroplast Genome Diversity and Marker Potentials of Diverse <i>Ensete ventricosum</i> Accessions.

ABSTRACT: Ensete ventricosum is a morphologically gigantic, monocot, diploid sister to the banana plant species. It is commercially cultivated as a starch source, only in Ethiopia, where it feeds twenty million people. Here, the complete chloroplast (CP) genomes of 15 diverse landraces of E. ventricosum were assembled and annotated, for comparative genomics, genetic diversity analysis, and molecular marker development. The assembled E. ventricosum CP genomes ranged between 168,388 and 168,806 bp. The sampled CP genomes were quadripartite in structure and had two single-copy regions, a large single-copy region (LSC, average length 88,657 bp), and a small single-copy region (SSC, average length 11,098 bp) separated by inverted repeat regions (IR, average length 34,437 bp). The tot

SUBMITTER: Biswas MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12525447 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature