The complete chloroplast genome of Gentiana macrophylla

Xiaofan Wang; Na Yang; Jiao Su; Hui Zhang; Xiaoyan Cao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1347831

The complete chloroplast genome of Gentiana macrophylla

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Jul 11;2(2):395-396. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1347831.

Authors

Xiaofan Wang¹, Na Yang¹, Jiao Su¹, Hui Zhang¹, Xiaoyan Cao¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Medicinal Resources and Natural Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Engineering Laboratory for Resource Development of Endangered Crude Drugs in Northwest of China, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China.

Abstract

Gentiana macrophylla is a perennial medicinal plant in the family Gentianaceae. Natural sources for G. macrophylla plants are being exhausted due to over-collection and need urgent conservation. The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of G. macrophylla (GenBank accession number: KY856959) was determined in our study. The size of chloroplast genome of G. macrophylla is 149,916 bp, including a large single-copy (LSC) region of 82,911 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 17,095 bp separated by a pair of identical inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 24,955 bp each. A total of 130 genes were successfully annotated containing 86 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. The GC content is 37.7%. 33 chloroplast simple sequence repeats (cpSSRs) of Gentiana macrophylla were detected, in which 32 of them are mononucleotide repeats. Phylogenomic analysis strongly supported the close relationship of G. macrophylla and other 5 species in Gentiana.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Gentiana macrophylla; cpSSRs; phylogeny.