Sequencing of Chloroplast Genome in Sesame

In plants, chloroplast genomes are a group of non-nuclear genomes and exhibit different genome structure and evolutionary characters from the nuclear genomes. In order to investigate the species-specific evolutionary characters, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome (GenBank no. JN637766) of S. indicum cv. Ansanggae (black-seeded) and the cp genome (GenBank no. KC569603) of S. indicum cv. Yuzhi 11 (white seeded) have been sequenced. Comparison of the cp genomes between sesame and other plants and the application of the cp genome information in genome evolution analysis are elucidated in this chapter.