The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Begonia ferox, an endangered species in China

Yangming Zhou; Xuan Yang; Qiongyue Liang; Tao Deng; Xinghua Hu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2231103

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Begonia ferox, an endangered species in China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Jul 18;8(7):746-750. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2231103. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yangming Zhou¹, Xuan Yang¹, Qiongyue Liang², Tao Deng², Xinghua Hu²

Affiliations

¹ College of Tourism and Landscape Architecture, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China.
² Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China.

Abstract

Begonia ferox C.I Peng & Yan Liu (2013) was rated as endangered according to Red List of Chinese Plants. In this study, we report the complete chloroplast genome of B. ferox. The chloroplast genome is 169,114 bp in length as the circular, with the GC content of 35.5%, composed by a large single-copy (LSC) region of 75,887 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,105 bp, and two inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 37,561 bp in each. The genome comprises 174 encoded genes in total, including 114 protein-coding genes, eight ribosomal RNA genes, and 52 transfer RNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that B. ferox is genetically closest to B. gulongshanensis.

Keywords: Begonia ferox; Begoniaceae; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic relationship.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Guangxi Science and Technology Base and Special Talents Program, China [Guike AD20325009] and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [32060255].