The complete chloroplast genome of Tibetan medicine Gentianopsis paludosa

Lucun Yang; Feng Xiong; Yuanming Xiao; Jingjing Li; Chen Chen; Changbin Li; Lingling Wang; Guoying Zhou

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1714494

The complete chloroplast genome of Tibetan medicine Gentianopsis paludosa

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 20;5(1):705-706. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1714494.

Authors

Lucun Yang^{1

2

3}, Feng Xiong^{1

2

3

4}, Yuanming Xiao^{1

2

3

4}, Jingjing Li⁵, Chen Chen^{1

2

3

4}, Changbin Li^{1

2

3

4}, Lingling Wang^{1

2

3

4}, Guoying Zhou^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China.
² Qinghai Key Laboratory of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Biological Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Tibetan Medicine Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China.
⁴ Research Center of Biological Resources in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁵ College of Life Science, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, China.

Abstract

Gentianopsis paludosa (Mum.) Ma is an important species in Tibetan folk medicine, but its wild populations are shrinking roughly due to the increasing demand for it. Gentianopsis paludosa is presently at risk of over-exploitation, so it needs urgent conservation. Here, we report the complete sequence of the chloroplast genome of G. paludosa. The genome was 51,121 bp in length with 129 genes comprising 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The overall GC content of G. paludosa chloroplast genome was is 36.67%. The phylogenomic analysis suggested that G. paludosa forms a clade with species in Halenia and Swertia, indicating that the G. paludosa is more closely related to Halenia and Swertia than that of Gentiana.

Keywords: Complete chloroplast; Gentianopsis paludosa; phylogeny.