The complete chloroplast genome of Abutilon theophrasti medic (Malvaceae)

Yanping Lv; Yuqi Yi; Rongchun Han; Xiaohui Tong; Hiroki Takahashi

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1886886

The complete chloroplast genome of Abutilon theophrasti medic (Malvaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Mar 16;6(3):912-913. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1886886.

Authors

Yanping Lv¹, Yuqi Yi¹, Rongchun Han¹, Xiaohui Tong², Hiroki Takahashi³

Affiliations

¹ School of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China.
² School of Life Sciences, Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China.
³ Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

Abstract

Abutilon theophrasti Medic is a traditional Chinese medicine, which can be seen nearly everywhere in China. In order to study its complete chloroplast genome, we collected leaves and obtained chloroplast genome information through next-generation sequencing. It showed that the genome whole length is 160,331 bp, resulted from 24,578,194 raw reads with 3,669,530,829 bases in total, and the GC contents ratio is 36.90%. Besides, the large single-copy region (LSC) is 89,006 bp, the small single-copy region (SSC) 20,149 bp, and inverted repeat (IR) 25,588 bp. The chloroplast genome encodes 76 genes, which contains 38 protein genes, five rRNA genes, and 33 tRNA. By conducting phylogenetic analysis for A.theophrasti, plants from genus Gossypium demonstrated close relationship with it.

Keywords: Abutilon theophrasti; Chloroplast genome; Malvaceae.

Grants and funding

This study was supported, in part, by Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Department [No. 1804b06020356], Education Department of Anhui Province [No. KJ2019A0463] and Anhui University of Chinese Medicine [No. 2019zrzd02].