The complete plastome and phylogeny of Barnardia japonica (Asparagaceae)

Abstract

Barnardia japonica is a perennial herb in Asparagaceae, which has important ornamental and medicinal value. Here, we sequenced and characterized the plastome of B. japonica from Sichuan, China. The plastome length of B. japonica was 156,111 bp, including an 84,333 bp LSC, a 18,272 bp SSC and two 26,753 bp IRs. A total of 132 genes were detected, including 20 duplicated genes and 112 unique genes. Phylogenetic analysis based on 32 taxa revealed the monophyly of B. japonica and its sister relationship to Albuca kirkii. In addition, our results will provide valuable information for the phylogeny of Asparagaceae.

Keywords:

• Asparagaceae
• Barnardia
• plastome
• phylogeny

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The complete plastome of Barnardia japonica has been submitted to NCBI database (GenBank accession numbers: MT319125) at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT319125.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation [Grant No. LY19C030007].