The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium brevicornu Maxim (Berberidaceae), a traditional Chinese medicine herb

Yanjun Zhang; Ruoqi Huang; Li Wu; Ying Wang; Tae Jin; Qiong Liang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1710593

The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium brevicornu Maxim (Berberidaceae), a traditional Chinese medicine herb

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 14;5(1):588-590. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1710593.

Authors

Yanjun Zhang¹, Ruoqi Huang^{1

2}, Li Wu¹, Ying Wang³, Tae Jin⁴, Qiong Liang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Plant Science, Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Epimedium brevicornu Maxim. is a traditional Chinese medicine herb with good effects on many diseases. In the present paper, the complete chloroplast genome of E. brevicornu was sequenced. The complete chloroplast genome of E. brevicornu was 159572 bp in length with 38.83% GC content, including four distinct regions: large single-copy region (86535 bp), small single-copy region (17641 bp), and a pair of inverted repeat regions (27698 bp). The chloroplast genome encoded 112 unique genes, which included 78 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis with the previously reported chloroplast genomes of Epimedium showed that E. brevicornu with small flowers at first clustered with large-flowered E. acuminatum into a strongly supported branch, but not with Epimedium species having similar floral characters.

Keywords: Chloroplast; Epimedium brevicornu; genome sequence; medicinal plant.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670346], the National Science and Technology Infrastructure program of China-compilation of Ex Situ Cultivated Flora of Botanical Garden [2015FY210100], the Key Scientific Research Talents Project of Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Y855281A05] and the Application Foundation Frontier Project of Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau [2019020701011435].