The first complete chloroplast genome sequence of Paris polyphylla var. emeiensis, a rare and endangered species

Min Fan; Jie Liu; Jing Wang; Jun Qian; Conglong Xia; Baozhong Duan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1768942

The first complete chloroplast genome sequence of Paris polyphylla var. emeiensis, a rare and endangered species

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 May 27;5(3):2172-2173. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1768942. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Min Fan^{1

2}, Jie Liu¹, Jing Wang¹, Jun Qian^{1

2}, Conglong Xia^{1

2}, Baozhong Duan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Pharmaceutical Science, Dali University, Dali, China.
² Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Higher Education Institute for Development of Yunnan Daodi Medicinal Materials Resources, Dali, China.

Abstract

Paris polyphylla var. emeiensis H. X. Yin, H. Zhang & D. Xue is a member of the genus Paris endemic to southwest of China. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome of P. polyphylla var. emeiensis was 164,854 bp in length with 36.96% overall GC content, including a large single-copy (LSC) region of 84,438 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 12,892 bp, which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 33,762 bp. There were 135 genes in total, including 89 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis indicated P. polyphylla var. emeiensis was closely related to P. fargesii and P. cronquistii.

Keywords: Melanthiaceae; Paris polyphylla var. emeiensis; complete chloroplast genome; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 31860080], the key technology project in Yunnan province of China [No. 201800501], and the Innovation Team project for traditional Chinese medicine resources and ethnic medicine of Dali University [ZKLX2019318].