The complete chloroplast genome of Strobilanthes crispus (Acanthaceae)

Guoqing Wan; Yanhui Liu; Yanjun Zheng; Xuefeng Gu; Changlian Lu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2111979

The complete chloroplast genome of Strobilanthes crispus (Acanthaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Aug 26;7(8):1553-1554. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2111979. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Guoqing Wan^{1

2}, Yanhui Liu², Yanjun Zheng¹, Xuefeng Gu^{1

2}, Changlian Lu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Zhoupu Hospital, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, PR China.
² School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, PR China.

Abstract

We reported and characterized the complete chloroplast genome sequence of Strobilanthes crispus Blume 1826. Strobilanthes crispus belongs to the Acanthaceae family and has a number of local names including Batuzin, Bayam Karang, Kotz Bellin, and Pekka Batu, which is native to Malaysian with diverse beneficial uses. Green leaves were determined using next-generation sequencing. We found that the entire chloroplast genome of S. crispus was 144,987 bp in length, included four segments, named a large single-copy (LSC) region (92,556 bp), a small single-copy (SSC) region (17,783 bp), and a pair inverted repeat regions (IRs) (17,324 bp in each), respectively. The chloroplast genome of S. crispus contained a total of 129 functional genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, 37 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), and eight ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The phylogenetic tree reconstructed by nine chloroplast genomes reveals that S. crispus is most closely related to Strobilanthes bantonensis and Strobilanthes cusia.

Keywords: Strobilanthes crispus; complete chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the funding from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission-Young Teacher Training Projection Program [ZZJKYX19007]; “Top-100 Talent Cultivation Plan” of SUMHS; Scientific Research Foundation of SUMHS; Construction Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging [18DZ2260400].