Complete chloroplast genomes of two mint species (Lamiaceae) from Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia: phylogenetic and genomic comparative analyses.

ABSTRACT: The genus Mentha encompasses mint species cultivated for their essential oils, which are formulated into a vast array of consumer products. However, the systematics of the genus Mentha is very complicated and still uncertain. This is largely because of the presence of frequent interspecific hybridization, variation in chromosome number, cytomixis, polymorphism in morphology and essential oil composition under different environmental conditions, colonial mutant propagation, as well as the occurrence of polyploidy, aneuploidy, and nothomorphs. Here, we present the plastome assemblies for a wilt-resistant Saudi Arabian accession of Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds and an alien hybrid Mentha × verticillata L. which are 152,078 bp and 152,026 bp in length, respecti

SUBMITTER: Zubair Filimban F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9586595 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature