Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Amsonia elliptica (Apocynaceae)

Yongsung Kim; Bo-Mi Nam; Iseon Kim; Tao Deng; Changkyun Kim

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2192834

Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Amsonia elliptica (Apocynaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Mar 29;8(3):461-465. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2192834. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yongsung Kim¹, Bo-Mi Nam¹, Iseon Kim¹, Tao Deng², Changkyun Kim¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Botany, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources, Mokpo-si, Republic of Korea.
² CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.

Abstract

Amsonia elliptica (Apocynaceae), endangered species in Korea, is a perennial herb that is economically important as traditional medicine and used as ornamentals. Natural populations of this species are facing extinction due to small population size and isolated distribution. Here, we report the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of A. elliptica using Illumina HiSeq sequencing and its phylogenetic position in subfamily Rauvolfioideae based on 20 Apocynaceae cp genomes. The cp genome of A. elliptica was 154,242 bp in length with a pair of inverted repeats of 25,711 bp, separated by large single-copy and small single-copy regions of 85,382 bp and 17,438 bp, respectively. Our phylogenomic analyses revealed that A. elliptica was closely related to Rhazya stricta in Rauvolfioideae (Apocynaceae).

Keywords: Amsonia elliptica; Apocynaceae; chloroplast genome; endangered species; phylogenomic analyses.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Honam National Institute of Biological Resources (HNIBR), funded by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of the Republic of Korea under Grant No. [HNIBR202101107].