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

Ruoqi Huang; Qiong Liang; Ying Wang; Tae-Jin Yang; Yanjun Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1756490

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

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 May 12;5(3):2042-2044. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1756490.

Authors

Ruoqi Huang^{1

2}, Qiong Liang¹, Ying Wang³, Tae-Jin Yang⁴, Yanjun Zhang¹

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 Academy of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 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 pubescens Maxim. is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine herb. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of E. pubescens was sequenced. The genome was 158 956 bp in length, with a large single-copy region of 86,345 bp, a small single-copy region of 17,075 bp, and 2 inverted repeat regions of 27,768 bp. The genome consisted of 113 genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. The GC contents were 38.82%. Phylogenetic analysis showed that E. pubescens of series Brachyrcerae was firstly clustered with E. acumiantum Franch. of ser. Dolichocerae, but not with E. brevicornu Maxim. from the same series.

Keywords: Epimedium pubescens; chloroplast; 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].