The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium pudingense (Berberidaceae), a narrowly distributed plant species in China

Yixin Zhang; Xiang Liu; Yu Yao; Yanjiao Luo; Qianru Yang; Cheng Zhang; Xu Chaoqun; Fengmei Suo; Guoan Shen; Baolin Guo

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1781560

The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium pudingense (Berberidaceae), a narrowly distributed plant species in China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jul 2;5(3):2631-2633. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1781560.

Authors

Yixin Zhang¹, Xiang Liu^{1

2}, Yu Yao¹, Yanjiao Luo³, Qianru Yang¹, Cheng Zhang¹, Xu Chaoqun¹, Fengmei Suo¹, Guoan Shen¹, Baolin Guo¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
² Chongqing Academy of Chinese Materia Medica, Chongqing, China.
³ College-of-Pharmacy, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China.

Abstract

Epimedium L. is the largest herbaceous genus of Berberidaceae which comprises more than 60 species. Epimedium pudingense is a rare plant species only narrowly inhabited in the Puding County in the Guizhou Province of China. Here, we first report the complete chloroplast genome of E. pudingense assembled from Illumina short-read sequencing data. The chloroplast genome of E. pudingense was 157,325 bp in length, with a total GC content of 36.11%. A total of 112 unique genes were identified, among which are 78 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes and four rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that E. pudingense closely related to E. elachyphyllum. Our study will provide useful fundamental data for further phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of the Epimedium genus.

Keywords: Berberidaceae; Chloroplast genome; Epimedium pudingense.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) [2017-12M-3-013], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [81473302], the Chongqing Science and Technology Burea [cstc2018jcyjAX0316, cc-cstc-CA-19-2], and the Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and the Technology Projects of Chongqing Health and Family Planning Commission [ZY201802117].