The chloroplast genome of Cuphea hookeriana Walp. (Lythraceae), a Mexico ornamental plant

Cuihua Gu; Yacheng Ye; Guozhe Zhang; Mengxin Yu; Mingzhu Bai; Qingqing Ma; Weili Shao; Yu Zhao; Sidan Hong

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2203783

The chloroplast genome of Cuphea hookeriana Walp. (Lythraceae), a Mexico ornamental plant

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Apr 24;8(4):522-526. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2203783. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Cuihua Gu^{1

2

3}, Yacheng Ye^{1

2

3}, Guozhe Zhang^{1

2

3}, Mengxin Yu^{1

2

3}, Mingzhu Bai^{1

2

3}, Qingqing Ma^{1

2

3}, Weili Shao^{1

2

3}, Yu Zhao^{1

2

3}, Sidan Hong^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ College of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.
² Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Garden Plants, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.
³ Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Germplasm Innovation and Utilization for Southern Garden Plants, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China.

Abstract

Cuphea hookeriana Walp. is an ornamental plant belonging to the Lythraceae. In this study, we reported the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence here and analyzed the phylogenetic relationship among Lythraceae plants. The length of the cp genome was 158,999 bp, including a large single-copy (LSC, 89,311 bp) region and a small single-copy (SSC, 18,436 bp) region separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 25,626 bp). There were 72 unique protein-coding genes (PCGs), 30 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and four ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes in the cp genome of C. hookeriana. A total of 223 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and 34 long repeat sequences were identified. Phylogenetic analyses using maximum-likelihood (ML) revealed that C. hookeriana was close to C. hyssopifolia. In addition, the two Cuphea species were the sister group of Woodfordia fruticosa.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Cuphea hookeriana; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from the Zhejiang Science and Technology Major Program on Agricultural New Variety Breeding [Grant No. 2021C02071-4] and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. LY21C160001].