The complete chloroplast genome of a distinctive meadow-rue, Thalictrum foeniculaceum (Ranunculaceae)

Lele Lin; Jian He; Rudan Lyu; Min Yao; Yike Luo; Lei Xie

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1870880

The complete chloroplast genome of a distinctive meadow-rue, Thalictrum foeniculaceum (Ranunculaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Feb 8;6(2):404-405. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1870880.

Authors

Lele Lin¹, Jian He¹, Rudan Lyu¹, Min Yao¹, Yike Luo¹, Lei Xie¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, 35 East Qinghua Rd., Haidian District, Beijing, PR China.

Abstract

Thalictrum foeniculaceum is a morphologically distinctive species in the genus with very reduced filiform compound leaves and big pinkish flowers occurring in dry slopes of northern China. Herein, we report the first complete chloroplast genome sequence of T. foeniculaceum. The chloroplast genome sequence was 155,923 bp in length, with large and small single-copy regions (LSC with 85,323 bp and SSC with 17,628 bp in length) separated by two inverted repeat regions (IRs with 26,486 bp). The total GC content was 38.3%. The complete plastome sequence contained 111 genes, including 77 protein-coding, 30 tRNA, and four rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis of Thalictrum based on the complete chloroplast genomes available online was also presented in this study.

Keywords: Complete chloroplast genome; Ranunculaceae; Thalictrum; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant no. 31670207 to Lei Xie].