Complete chloroplast genome sequences of an important horticultural orchid: Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum (Orchidaceae)

Zhe Zhao; Mingyu Li; Jian He; Jin Cheng; Lei Xie

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1662752

Complete chloroplast genome sequences of an important horticultural orchid: Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum (Orchidaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 9;4(2):2950-2951. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1662752.

Authors

Zhe Zhao¹, Mingyu Li¹, Jian He², Jin Cheng¹, Lei Xie²

Affiliations

¹ College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Laboratory of Urban and Rural Ecological Environment, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation and Molecular Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
² School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum is an important ornamental orchid species with great horticultural value. The whole chloroplast genome was assembled using genome skimming data. The total length of the cp genome is 154,569 bp, comprising a large single-copy (LSC) region of 85198 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 683 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 34,344 bp each. The chloroplast genome consists of 125 functional genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 38 tRNA genes. The systematic position of the species was also inferred based on plastid phylogenomic analyses.

Keywords: Horticultural plant; Orchidaceae; Paphiopedilum; phylogenomics; whole chloroplast genome.