The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Centella asiatica (Linnaeus) Urban

Chan Li; Xuena Xie; Fang Li; Enwei Tian; Yuqi Shu; Zhi Chao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1768922

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Centella asiatica (Linnaeus) Urban

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 May 22;5(3):2149-2150. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1768922.

Authors

Chan Li¹, Xuena Xie¹, Fang Li¹, Enwei Tian¹, Yuqi Shu², Zhi Chao¹

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicinal Plants and Pharmacognosy, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Pharmacy, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

The apiaceous species Centella asiatica (Linnaeus) Urban is attractive not only to pharmaceutical researchers for its versatile medicinal uses, but also to botanists for its phylogenetic significance. We acquired its whole chloroplast genome (CP) through genome skimming. The CP genome ofCentella asiatica was 154,771 bp in length, including a large single-copy (LSC) region with 86176 bp, a small single copy (SSC) region with 18107 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IR) regions with 25,343 bp. The whole AT content of the CP genome was 62.3%. Phylogenomic analysis revealed that Centella asiatica formed a separate clade sister to Saniculoideae and Apioideae species in the family Apiaceae. The work provides beneficial data for following researches on the genetic variation, species identification, phylogeny, and classification of Centella.

Keywords: Centella asiatica; chloroplast genome; phylogenomic analysis.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 81373905] and Guangdong Natural ScienceFoundation [Grant No. 2014A030313321].