The complete chloroplast genome of Primula calliantha subsp. bryophila, an ornamental alpine plant from China

Rui Li; Li Zhang; Yunqi Liu; Shubao Wang; Yuan Huang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2150066

The complete chloroplast genome of Primula calliantha subsp. bryophila, an ornamental alpine plant from China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Jan 1;8(1):4-6. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2150066. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Rui Li¹, Li Zhang¹, Yunqi Liu¹, Shubao Wang¹, Yuan Huang¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, P. R. China.

Abstract

Primula calliantha subsp. bryophila (Balf. f. et Farrer) W.W. Smith and Forrest (1928) is a perennial alpine species with ornamental value. It is distributed in northwestern Yunnan and adjacent eastern Tibet of China, and northern Myanmar. Here, we sequenced and assembled complete plastid genome of P. calliantha subsp. bryophila, which is a circular molecule of 152,045 bp in length, including a large single-copy region (83,966 bp), a small single-copy region (17,663 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (25,208 bp). The chloroplast genome contained 113 genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, four rRNA genes, and 30 tRNA genes. The phylogenetic tree based on chloroplast genomes showed the relative relationship of P. calliantha subsp. bryophila and P. calliantha, which further supports P. calliantha subsp. bryophila as a subspecies of P. calliantha in taxonomy. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome of P. calliantha subsp. bryophila provides valuable data for further phylogenetic studies of Primulaceae.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Primula calliantha subsp. bryophila; phylogenomic analysis.

Grants and funding

The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [no. 31960050]; the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education [no. 2021Y500]; and the Major Project on Biodiversity Conservation of Ministry of Ecology and Environment.