The complete chloroplast genome of Primula beesiana, an ornamental alpine plant from SW China

Zhikun Wu; Xiong Chen; Li Zhang; Yuan Huang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1698377

The complete chloroplast genome of Primula beesiana, an ornamental alpine plant from SW China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Dec 12;5(1):182-183. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1698377.

Authors

Zhikun Wu¹, Xiong Chen², Li Zhang², Yuan Huang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, P. R. China.
² School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, P. R. China.

Abstract

Primula beesiana Forrest is a perennial rosette alpine species in the Sect. Proliferae of family Primulaceae. Here, the first complete chloroplast genome of P. beesiana was determined. The size of the complete chloroplast genome of P. beesiana is 150873 bp with GC content of 37.1%. The assembled genome has a typical quadripartite structure, containing a large single-copy (LSC) region was 82850 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region was 17,651 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) regions was 25,186 bp. There are 137 genes are annotated in the whole cp genome with 91 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 38 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, including 115 unique genes, 81 unique CDSs, 30 unique tRNAs, and 4 unique rRNAs. The phylogenetic tree showed that P. beesiana is closely related to P. bulleyana.

Keywords: Complete chloroplast genome; Primula beesiana; perennial alpine species.

Grants and funding

The research was supported by NSFC, grant No. [31960050, 31560062], the Science and Technology planning project of Yunnan Province, grant No. [2016BC013], and the Major Project on Biodiversity Conservation of Ministry of Ecology and Environment.