Chloroplast genomes of six Colocasia species (Araceae) including taro

Chloroplast genome diversity in taro (Colocasia esculenta) and one other Colocasia species (C. formosana) was previously analysed using concatenated sequences produced by sequencing six polymorphic loci. Here we present complete chloroplast genome sequences for 19 samples (17 new) from six species of Colocasia (Araceae): C. esculenta, C. lihengieae, C. formosana, C. spongifolia, C. oresbia and C. fallax. Three different alignments of these sequences were prepared for a report entitled \"Chloroplast capture and range extension after hybridization in taro (Colocasia esculenta)\" (Matthews et al. 2024 in press). The alignments show that C. fallax is a distant outgroup and C. oresbia a near outgroup for C. esculenta (including wild and cultivated forms) and a group of closely related wild species (C. lihengiae, C. formosana, C. spongifolia).
The alignments may be useful for future studies involving (1) further populations of each species in the present study, and (2) Colocasia species not rep..., Complete chloroplast genome sequences were obtained from 17 field samples representing six species of Colocasia (Araceae) The sequences were assembled and then aligned together with two previously-published sequences from taro (C. esculenta). The 17 new samples were sequenced using Illumina PE 150 run (Genwiz Life Sciences, China). Bioinformatic analyses, including sequencing-data quality checks, genome assembly, annotations, circularization and data curation, were done as reported previously. The previously-published taro sequences were from New Zealand (var. GP, triploid, JN105689 and var. RR, triploid, JN105690).
Using MAFFT in Geneious, sequence sets (see below) were aligned, and one copy of the inverted repeat (IRa) and all gaps (indels) were removed. Three different alignments were made for the sequences from (1) 19 sample, six species, (2) 18 samples, five species, and (3) 16 samples, four species. The alignments were used to prepare Maxium Likelihood (ML) trees shown in the full..., , # Chloroplast genomes from six *Colocasia* species (Araceae) including taro

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Complete chloroplast genome sequences (161,252 bp to 162,644 bp) were obtained for 19 samples (17 new) from six wild *Colocasia* species, *C. lihengieae* (CLI), *C. formosana* (CFO), *C. spongifolia* (CSF), *C. oresbia* (COR), *C. fallax* (CFA), and from wild and cultivated forms of *C. esculenta* (CES, taro). Three sets of alignments prepared from these sequences are reported here. Each set includes two edited sequences based on previously reported, complete chloroplast sequences from New Zealand (Genbank numbers JN105689, JN105690; Ahmed *et al.* 2012). The main article supported by the present alignments provides taxonomic information, sample history, photographs of sampled plants, populations and habitats, and interpretation: Matthews *et al.* (2024 in press) \"Chloroplast capture and range extension after hybridization in ta...