The complete chloroplast genome of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f. (Celastraceae)

Yuan Zhong; Jingzheng Zhang; Zhenzhen Bao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2119103

The complete chloroplast genome of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. f. (Celastraceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Sep 23;7(9):1696-1698. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2119103. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yuan Zhong¹, Jingzheng Zhang¹, Zhenzhen Bao¹

Affiliation

¹ School of pharmacy, Jiangsu Health Vocational College, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P. R. China.

Abstract

Tripterygium wilfordii is a perennial vine plant with medicinal value and belongs to the family of Celastraceae. In this study, we sequenced and analyzed the complete chloroplast genome of T. wilfordii. The chloroplast genome was 156,700 bp in length with a GC content of 37.47%. It contained two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 26,461 bp; each region was separated by large single-copy and small single-copy regions of 85,409 bp and 18,369 bp, respectively. In total, we annotated 134 unique genes, consisting of 89 protein-encoding genes, 8 rRNAs and 37 tRNAs. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that T. wilfordii was sister to T. regelii in a clade of Tripterygiumii species that was sister to a clade of Euonymus species.

Keywords: Tripterygium wilfordii; complete chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This project was funded by Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China [19KJD430005], Practical Training Program for Young Teachers in Higher Vocational Colleges in Jiangsu Province [2020QYSJ077], Qinglan project of excellent teaching team in Jiangsu, Qinglan project of outstanding young backbone teachers in Jiangsu, teaching and research project of Jiangsu Health Vocational College [JKA2021001, JKB202008], and innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students in Jiangsu Province [202014255013H].