The complete chloroplast genome of Verbena officinalis, an herbal species of Verbenaceae family

Zhiyong Yue; Jinpei Wang; Yan Wang; Baozhen Zhou; Xujiang Zhou; Wanjing Zhang; Chenxi Li; Zhen Qi; Hanping Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1938719

The complete chloroplast genome of Verbena officinalis, an herbal species of Verbenaceae family

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jun 14;6(7):1982-1983. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1938719.

Authors

Zhiyong Yue¹, Jinpei Wang¹, Yan Wang², Baozhen Zhou¹, Xujiang Zhou¹, Wanjing Zhang¹, Chenxi Li¹, Zhen Qi¹, Hanping Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Medicine, Xi'an International University, Xi'an, China.
² Microbiology Institute of Shaanxi, Xi'an, China.

Abstract

Verbena officinalis is one kind of traditional medical herb which has potential for multiple diseases' treatment. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome sequence of V. officinalis was assembled. Its complete circular chloroplast DNA length was 153,491 bp. The genome was made up of a large single-copy region of 84,518 bp, a small single-copy region of 17,357 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat regions of 25,808 bp. The genome totally encoded 128 genes, containing 83 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that V. officinalis belongs to the verbenaceae family.

Keywords: Verbena officinalis; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic tree.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the Science and Research Special Project of Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Project under Grant number 20JK0864, the Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Xi’an International University under Grant number XAIU2019014, and the Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province under Grant number 2019NY-156.