Abstract:
Beta vulgaris, Spinacia oleracea and Chenopodium quinoa Willd have high edible, medicinal and feeding values.In order to study the chloroplast genome repeats sequence difference between beet and its related groups, MISA and REPuter were used to analyze the complete chloroplast whole genome cpSSR and cpIRS of beet and its related groups. The results showed that the total length of Beta vulgaris and its related groups were 149 722 bp, 150 725 bp and 152 079 bp, respectively, and all of them were consisted by a single LSC(83 110 bp, 82 719 bp, 83 551 bp), a single SSC(17 793 bp, 17 860 bp, 18 118 bp) and a pair of IRs(24 410 bp, 25 073 bp, 25 205 bp) a single. A total of 195, 171 and 154 SSR loci were detected in the chloroplast genome of Beta vulgaris and related groups, with an average of one SSR loci every 767.8 bp, 881.4 bp and 987.5 bp. Single base repeats were dominant, accounting for 91.8%, 85.35% and 89.6% of the total SSR loci, respectively. cpSSR mainly distributed in LSC region, accounting for 67.69%,68.82% and 65.59% of the total number of SSR loci. The length of cpSSR was mainly between 8 and 12 bp, indicating that most microsatellite loci on chloroplast genome had high polymorphism. Beta vulgaris and its related taxa were detected in REPuter with 50, 13 and 25 cpIRS sequences, 26 direct(F type) and 24 inverted repeats(P type) were detected in Beta vulgaris and only one type of repeat was detected in Spinacia oleracea and Chenopodium quinoa Willd, all of which were direct repeat(F type).