The chloroplast genome of Ostericum citriodorum (Apiaceae), an endemic medicinal plant to China

Abstract

Ostericum citriodorum is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb endemic to Southeast and South China, but now is becoming very rare because of rapid habit loss. The complete chloroplast genome of O. citriodorum was sequenced herein and suggested that the complete chloroplast genome was 155,919 bp in length, comprising the large single-copy (LSC) region of 85,393 bp, the small single-copy (SSC) region of 19,760 bp, and a pair of inverted regions (IRs) of 25,383 bp. Totally 127 genes were distributed in the whole genome, including 4 rRNAs, 37 tRNAs, and 81 protein coding genes. The G + C content of this chloroplast genome was 38%. Phylogenetic inference revealed that O. citriodorum was accompanied with Pterygopleurum neurophyllum and sister to O. palustre, indicating a close relationship between Ostericum and Pterygopleurum.

Keywords:

• Apiaceae
• chloroplast genome
• herbal medicine
• Ostericum citriodorum

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

All the chloroplast genome sequences used in this study are derived from the GenBank database at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank, and the reference numbers are DQ898156.1, GU456628.1, KU866530.1, KU921430.2, KX352486.1, MG719855.1, MH121055.1, MH180258.1, MN275034, MN539269.1, MN970215, MT501096, NC029392.1, NC029470.1, NC033343.1, NC033345.1, NC034645.1, NC042242.1, respectively.

Figure 1. The neighbour-joining (NJ) analysis of Ostericum citriodorum and related taxa in Apiaceae, inferred from their complete chloroplast genome sequences. Bootstrap (BS) values from 1000 replicates are labeled on the nodes.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31400195].