The complete chloroplast genome of Waldheimia glabra

Wang Hai; Weiyu Wang; Li Tong; Nie Shao-Hu; Wei Li; Yi-Zeng Lu; Bo-Qiang Tong; Zhao Hui-En

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1944372

The complete chloroplast genome of Waldheimia glabra

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jul 6;6(8):2221-2223. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1944372. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Wang Hai¹, Weiyu Wang², Li Tong¹, Nie Shao-Hu¹, Wei Li³, Yi-Zeng Lu⁴, Bo-Qiang Tong⁴, Zhao Hui-En¹

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation & Molecular Breeding; National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding in Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants of Ministry of Education, College of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
² International Education College, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
³ College of Landscape Architecture and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China.
⁴ Shandong Provincial Center of Forest Tree Germplasm Resources, Jinan, China.

Abstract

Waldheimia glabra (Decne.) Rgl. 1879 (family Asteraceae) is a perennial herb with high economic and medicinal values. In this study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of W. glabra by high-throughput Illumina sequencing. The size of the W. glabra cp genome is 151,499 bp, with overall GC content of 37.3%. It contains a large single copy and a small single copy region of 83,078 bp and 18,457 bp, respectively, separated by a pair of inverted repeats regions of 24,982 bp. We also discovered 131 genes, including 86 protein-coding genes, 37 transfer RNA genes, and 8 ribosomal RNA genes in the genome. The maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree demonstrated that W. glabra is closely related to Leucanthemella linearis.

Keywords: Asteraceae; Waldheimia glabra; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic relationships.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the National Key R&D Program of China [grant number 2018YFD1000401] and the World-Class Discipline Construction and Characteristic Development Guidance Funds for Beijing Forestry University [grant number 2019XKJS0323].