The complete chloroplast genome of Verbascum chinense (L.) Santapau

Yanxia He; Yuanyuan Ma; Zhengying Li; Peng Liu; Wangjun Yuan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1797556

The complete chloroplast genome of Verbascum chinense (L.) Santapau

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jul 27;5(3):3021-3022. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1797556.

Authors

Yanxia He¹, Yuanyuan Ma², Zhengying Li¹, Peng Liu², Wangjun Yuan²

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.
² Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.

Abstract

Verbascum chinense is a perennial plant in the Scrophulariaceae family that is traditionally used as sedative, astringent, febrifuge, and for skin eruptions. Here, we determined the complete chloroplast(cp) genome sequence for V. chinense using genome skimming sequencing. The cp genome was 153,618 bp and consisted of a large single copy (LSC) region (84,834 bp), a small single copy (SSC) region (17,884 bp), and two inverted repeats (IRs) (25,450 bp). It encodes 114 unique genes, including 80 protein-coding genes, four rRNAs, and 30 tRNAs. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that V. chinense exhibits a closer relationship with V. phoeniceum rather than Scrophularia.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Verbascum chinense; phylogenetic tree.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [No. 31500572] and the Fourth National Survey of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources [No. [2017]66].