The complete chloroplast genomes of two Pedicularis species (Orobanchaceae) from Southwest China

Wei-Jia Wang; Rong Liu; You Wu; Hong Wang; Wen-Bin Yu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2080018

The complete chloroplast genomes of two Pedicularis species (Orobanchaceae) from Southwest China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Jun 10;7(6):971-973. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2080018. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Wei-Jia Wang^{1

2}, Rong Liu^{2

3}, You Wu^{1

2}, Hong Wang¹, Wen-Bin Yu^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, China.
⁴ Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, China.
⁵ Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

Abstract

We report the complete chloroplast genome (plastome) sequences of Pedicularis cephalantha (147,087 bp) and P. nigra (145,726 bp), endemic to southwestern China. Both plastomes have typical quadripartite structures with one large-single copy region, one small-single copy region, and two inverted repeat regions. Both plastome sequences contained 37 tRNA genes and eight rRNA genes, but they differed in the numbers of protein-coding genes: P. cephalantha had 76 functional genes and 12 pseudogenes while P. nigra had 74 functional genes and 13 pseudogenes. Phylogenetic analysis shows that P. cephalantha and P. nigra are closely related, then sister to P. oederi in the family Orobanchaceae.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Orobanchaceae; Pedicularis; Pedicularis cephalantha; Pedicularis nigra; plastome.

Associated data

figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.17097098.v2

Grants and funding

This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Nos. 31870196, 32071670], the Large-Scale Scientific Facilities of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [No. 2017-LSFGBOWS-02], and the Open Research Project of “Cross-Cooperative Team” of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the CAS 135 Program [No. 2017XTBG-T03].