The complete chloroplast genome of Cnidium officinale Makino

Inkyu Park; Sungyu Yang; Wook Jin Kim; Pureum Noh; Hyun Oh Lee; Byeong Cheol Moon

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1464413

The complete chloroplast genome of Cnidium officinale Makino

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Apr 23;3(2):490-491. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1464413.

Authors

Inkyu Park¹, Sungyu Yang¹, Wook Jin Kim¹, Pureum Noh¹, Hyun Oh Lee², Byeong Cheol Moon¹

Affiliations

¹ K-herb Research Center, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
² Phyzen Genomics Institute, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Cnidium officinale (Ligusticum officinale) is an important herbal medicine. To facilitate species identification, we determined the complete chloroplast genome of C. officinale using the Illumina MiSeq platform. The genome was 148,518 bp in length, comprising a large single copy (LSC) region of 93,977 bp, a small single copy (SSC) region of 17,607 bp, and two inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb) of 18,467 bp each. The genome contains 113 unique genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, four ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), and 30 transfer RNAs (tRNAs). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that C. officinale is most closely related to L. tenuissium, with high bootstrap values.

Keywords: Apiaceae; Cnidium officinale; Ligusticum officinale; chloroplast genome; medicinal plant.