Crop Breeding and Genetic Resources Lab
Crop Breeding and Genetic Resources Lab, Institute of Crop Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños focuses on minor, underutilized, neglected and native cultivated plant species from the Philippines. Our research interests involve plant genetic resources conservation and management, cultivated plant systematics, plant breeding and other allied fields.
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The complete chloroplast genome of ‘biasong’(Citrus micrantha Wester), a native species from the Southern Philippines
November 15, 2022
‘Biasong’ (Citrus micrantha), native to the Southern Philippine Islands, is an important cultivated fruit tree but has no published plastome sequence. We assembled and characterized the C. micrantha chloroplast genome from accession in the germplasm collection of the Institute of Crop Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence is 159,928-bp long with 128 coding genes comprising 83 mRNA genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. Out of the mRNA genes, 45 genes code for photosynthesis, 30 genes code for self-replication, and five genes code for other functions. A phylogenetic analysis of the assembled genome, along with 24 Citrus species and three other Rutaceae species, identified Citrus aurantiifolia as its closest relative with available complete cpDNA sequence.
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