The complete chloroplast genome of Notholirion bulbuliferum, lights into phylogenetic and taxonomic analyses

Jie Li; Yixin Liu; Qingjiang Wang; Xuqing Chen; Fengping Yang; Xiuhai Zhang; Yunpeng Du

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1696243

The complete chloroplast genome of Notholirion bulbuliferum, lights into phylogenetic and taxonomic analyses

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Dec 9;5(1):67-68. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1696243.

Authors

Jie Li^{1

2}, Yixin Liu¹, Qingjiang Wang², Xuqing Chen¹, Fengping Yang¹, Xiuhai Zhang¹, Yunpeng Du¹

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Beijing Functional Flower Engineering Technology Research Center, Beijing Agro-Biotechnology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China.
² College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China.

Abstract

Notholirion bulbuliferum a precious endangered species in China, it has a long history of growth and high ornamental and edible value. In this study, we reported a complete chloroplast genome of N. bulbuliferum, in which the whole genome is 153,019 bp in length, and includes one large single copy region of 70,585 bp, one small single copy region of 17,527 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat region of 26,530 bp. It contains 130 genes, comprising 84 protein-coding genes, 36 transfer RNA, and eight rRNA genes. The overall AT content of the chloroplast genome is 62.9%. In the maximum-likelihood and phylogenetic analysis with the reported chloroplast genomes of Notholirion, it showed that N. bulbuliferum and Notholirion macrophyllum get a high support rate (ML (BS) =100%) and become sister groups. It indicates that the study on the complete chloroplast genome of N. bulbuliferum is more closely related to Cardiocrinum than related to Lilium.

Keywords: Notholirion bulbuliferum; complete chloroplast genome; next generation sequencing; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 31601781] and Youth Research Fund of Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry [QNJJ201910].