Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Taxus wallichiana as the medicinal plant from China

Tian Ruan; Ruijing Tan; WenJie Ma; Minghang Li; Xuyi Zheng; Lifen He

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1799725

Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Taxus wallichiana as the medicinal plant from China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Nov 11;5(3):3775-3776. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1799725.

Authors

Tian Ruan¹, Ruijing Tan², WenJie Ma², Minghang Li³, Xuyi Zheng^{1

2

3}, Lifen He²

Affiliations

¹ Second Clinical Medical School of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
² Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
³ First Clinical Medical School of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Abstract

Taxus wallichiana is a member of the family Taxaceae, which is a unique and endangered species in China and is widely used for ornamental, material and medicinal purposes. The complete chloroplast genome of T. wallichiana was found to possess a total size of 128,168 bp. The GC content of T. wallichiana chloroplast genome sequence is 37.3%, the overall nucleotide composition of chloroplast genome sequence is: A of 30.7%, T of 32.0%, C of 19.0% and G of 18.3%. The total of 116 genes were successfully annotated, which contained 83 protein-coding genes, 29 transfer RNA genes, and 4 ribosomal RNA genes. The ML phylogenetic analysis result showed that T. wallichiana was closely related to Taxus baccata in the phylogenetic relationship using the neighbour-joining (NJ) method in this study.

Keywords: Taxaceae; Taxus wallichiana; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic relationship.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Yun-nan Applied Basic Research Project-Kunming Medical University Union Foundation [2017FE468 (-135)].