Complete plastid genome of Vanda concolor (Orchidaceae, Aeridinae)

Jin-Liao Chen; Xiong-De Tu; Ding-Kun Liu; Ye Ai

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1679049

Complete plastid genome of Vanda concolor (Orchidaceae, Aeridinae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Oct 21;4(2):3687-3688. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1679049.

Authors

Jin-Liao Chen¹, Xiong-De Tu¹, Ding-Kun Liu¹, Ye Ai¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization at College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Abstract

Vanda is one of the five most horticulturally important genera in Orchidaceae. In this study, we assembled the complete plastid genome of an important cultivated species, V. concolor. The plastome was 149,474 bp in length, containing a large single-copy region (LSC) of 85,678 bp, a small single-copy region (SSC) of 12,002 bp, and two inverted repeat regions (IR) of 25,897 bp. A total of 127 genes were predicted, including 38 tRNA, 8 rRNA, and 74 protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analysis of 21 representative plastome of the subtribe Aeridinae suggested V. concolor to be sister to V. brunnea and that this pair is sister to Neofinetia.

Keywords: Vanda; phylogeny; plastid genome.