The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium sutchuenense Franch. (Berberidaceae)

Xiang Liu; Yixin Zhang; Cheng Zhang; Chaoqun Xu; Weihan Qin; Guoan Shen; Baolin Guo

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1973923

The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium sutchuenense Franch. (Berberidaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Oct 23;6(11):3289-3291. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1973923. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Xiang Liu^{1

2}, Yixin Zhang¹, Cheng Zhang¹, Chaoqun Xu¹, Weihan Qin², Guoan Shen¹, Baolin Guo¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
² Chongqing Academy of Chinese Materia Medica, Chongqing, China.

Abstract

Epimedium L. is the largest herbaceous genus in the family Berberidaceae which comprises more than 60 species. Epimedium sutchuenense Franch. is narrowly inhabited in the Daba Mountains of China. In the current study, we assembled the first complete chloroplast genome of E. sutchuenense through Illumina paired-end sequencing. The complete chloroplast genome of E. sutchuenense was 157,218 bp in length and the total GC content was 38.78%. A total of 112 unique genes were identified, including 78 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes and 4 rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that E. sutchuenense was sister to Epimedium wushanense T. S. Ying. Our results provided valuable information for further phylogenetic research and germplasm exploration of Epimedium genus.

Keywords: Berberidaceae; Chloroplast genome; Epimedium sutchuenense; infrageneric classification; phylogenetic relationship.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) under Grant [2017-I2M-3-013]; the National Natural Science Foundation of China, under Grant [81473302]; the Chongqing Science and Technology Commission under Grants [cstc2018jcyjAX0316, cc-cstc-CA-19-2, cstc2019jcyj-msxmx0464, cstc2019jxjl-jbky10007, and cstc2020jxjl10004].