Comparative Chloroplast Genomes of Sorghum Species: Sequence Divergence and Phylogenetic Relationships.

ABSTRACT: Sorghum comprises 31 species that exhibit considerable morphological and ecological diversity. The phylogenetic relationships among Sorghum species still remain unresolved due to lower information on the traditional DNA markers, which provides a limited resolution for identifying Sorghum species. In this study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genomes of Sorghum sudanense and S. propinquum and analyzed the published chloroplast genomes of S. bicolor and S. timorense to retrieve valuable chloroplast molecular resources for Sorghum. The chloroplast genomes ranged in length from 140,629 to 140,755 bp, and their gene contents, gene orders, and GC contents were similar to those for other Poaceae species but were slightly different in the num

SUBMITTER: Song Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6444266 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature