Complete plastome of Houttuynia cordata (Saururaceae), a medicinal and edible plant

Lei Jin; Jin Yang; Changkun Liu; Mengling He; Hanjing Yan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1667910

Complete plastome of Houttuynia cordata (Saururaceae), a medicinal and edible plant

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 24;4(2):3208-3209. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1667910.

Authors

Lei Jin^{1

2}, Jin Yang^{2

3}, Changkun Liu², Mengling He^{1

4}, Hanjing Yan^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
² Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
³ School of Life Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Production & Development of Cantonese Medicinal Materials, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Abstract

The complete plastome of Houttuynia cordata, an important medicinal and edible plant, was identified and sequenced in this study. The circular plastome is 160,217 bp in length and consists of a pair of inverted repeats (IRs 26,854 bp each), which is separated by a large single-copy region (LSC, 88,189 bp) and a small single-copy region (SSC, 18,320 bp). It encodes 132 genes, of which 114 are unique genes (80 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNAs, and 4 rRNAs). The phylogenetic analysis strongly reveals the sister group between H. cordata and the clade including Piper kadsura, Piper cenocladum, Saruma henryi, and Asarum sieboldii.

Keywords: Houttuynia cordata; complete plastome; phylogenetic analysis.