The complete chloroplast genome of Ormosia purpureiflora (Fabaceae)

Zheng-Feng Wang; Eng-Ping Yu; Qing-Sheng Zeng; Hua-Ge Deng; Hong-Lin Cao; Zhi-An Li; Xiao Wei; Shiou Yih Lee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1994901

The complete chloroplast genome of Ormosia purpureiflora (Fabaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Nov 3;6(12):3327-3328. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1994901. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Zheng-Feng Wang^{1

2

3}, Eng-Ping Yu^{1

4}, Qing-Sheng Zeng⁵, Hua-Ge Deng⁶, Hong-Lin Cao^{1

2

3}, Zhi-An Li^{1

2

3}, Xiao Wei⁷, Shiou Yih Lee⁸

Affiliations

¹ Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
² Center for Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
³ Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.
⁴ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁵ Guangdong Forest Resources Conservation Centre, Guangzhou, China.
⁶ Guangdong Luofushan Provincial Nature Reserve Management Office, Huizhou, China.
⁷ Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China.
⁸ Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia.

Abstract

Ormosia purpureiflora is endemic to China. It is named after its purple flowers. It is a small tree only up to 3 m. It has leathery leaves, racemose inflorescences. The seeds are elliptic and red in coat. It is only confined to Luofushan Provincial Nature Reserve in Huizhou of Guangdong Province. Herein, we first reported on its complete chloroplast genome sequence as genomic resource for conservation purposes. The chloroplast genome of O. purpureiflora was 173,364 bp in length, with a large single-copy region of 73,465 bp, a small single-copy region of 18,751 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat regions that were 40,574 bp each. A total of 90 protein-coding genes, 38 transfer RNA genes, and eight ribosomal RNA genes were predicted, while 106 simple sequence repeats were recorded throughout the genome. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that O. purpureiflora was sister to O. emarginata.

Keywords: Chloroplast; HiFi sequencing; Ormosia purpureiflora; endangered species; genome assembly.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Forestry Flora and Fauna Conservation Project of Guangdong Province: General regulations of ‘one center and three bases’ for rare and endangered plants preservation in Guangdong Province and inventory of endemic plants and important wild south-china herbal medicinal resources in three regions; Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) under Grant number [GML2019ZD0408]; The Monitoring of Rare and Endemic Plants in Guangdong Province Project by the Forest Resources Conservation Center of Guangdong Province and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA13020601).