The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Centella asiatica (Linnaeus) Urban

Abstract

The apiaceous species Centella asiatica (Linnaeus) Urban is attractive not only to pharmaceutical researchers for its versatile medicinal uses, but also to botanists for its phylogenetic significance. We acquired its whole chloroplast genome (CP) through genome skimming. The CP genome ofCentella asiatica was 154,771 bp in length, including a large single-copy (LSC) region with 86176 bp, a small single copy (SSC) region with 18107 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IR) regions with 25,343 bp. The whole AT content of the CP genome was 62.3%. Phylogenomic analysis revealed that Centella asiatica formed a separate clade sister to Saniculoideae and Apioideae species in the family Apiaceae. The work provides beneficial data for following researches on the genetic variation, species identification, phylogeny, and classification of Centella.

Keywords:

• Centella asiatica
• chloroplast genome
• phylogenomic analysis

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/. See supplementary material for reference numbers.

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Funding

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 81373905] and Guangdong Natural ScienceFoundation [Grant No. 2014A030313321].