The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium muhuangense (Berberidaceae)

Jing Wang; Ruoqi Huang; Qiong Liang; Yanjun Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2071650

The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium muhuangense (Berberidaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 May 16;7(5):870-872. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2071650. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jing Wang^{1

2}, Ruoqi Huang^{2

3}, Qiong Liang², Yanjun Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Botany, College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People's Republic of China.
² Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Epimedium muhuangense S. Z. He & Y. Y. Wang 2017, one of the rare unifoliolate species in the Epimedium genus of Berberidaceae, is distributed in the Guizhou province of China. In present research, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of E. muhuangense with Illumina sequencing technology. The whole genome was 157,264 bp in length, which consisted of a large single-copy region (LSC, 88,588 bp), a small single-copy region (SSC, 17,036 bp), and a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb, 25,820 bp). A total of 112 unique genes were successfully annotated, consisting of 78 protein-encoding genes, 30 rRNA, and four tRNA. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that E. muhuangense is closely related to E. elachyphyllum.

Keywords: Berberidaceae; Epimedium muhuangense; chloroplast genome.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670346, 32071675], the Key Scientific Research Talents Project of Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Y855281A05], and Wuhan Science and Technology Plan Project [2019020701011435].