Complete chloroplast genome of the Meconopsis quintuplinervia (Papaveraceae), a traditional medicine of Tibetan

Bei Xu; Hengbo Kang; Shengxiang Luo; Qian Yang; Zhe Zhao; Fangfang Peng; Zhan-Lin Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1629343

Complete chloroplast genome of the Meconopsis quintuplinervia (Papaveraceae), a traditional medicine of Tibetan

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 12;4(2):2335-2336. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1629343.

Authors

Bei Xu¹, Hengbo Kang¹, Shengxiang Luo¹, Qian Yang¹, Zhe Zhao¹, Fangfang Peng¹, Zhan-Lin Liu¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Ministry of Education), College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China.

Abstract

As a medicinal herb of Tibetan, Meconopsis quintuplinervia is often utilized for treating pneumonia. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of M. quintuplinervia was determined by next-generation sequencing technology. The overall genome was 154,997 bp in size, including a large single copy (LSC), a small single copy (SSC) and two inverted repeat (IR) regions, which were 85,153 bp, 17,876 bp, and 25,984 bp in length, respectively. The circular chloroplast genome owned 129 genes, comprising 84 protein-coding genes, 8 ribosomal RNA genes (four rRNA species), and 37 transfer RNA genes. The GC contents of the entire sequence, LSC, SSC, and IR region were 38.5%, 37.1%, 32.8%, and 43%, separately. The maximum likelihood tree revealed that M. quintuplinervia was closely related to M. racemosa with strong support value.

Keywords: Meconopsis quintuplinervia; chloroplast genome; phylogeny.