The complete chloroplast genome sequences of the Iris loczyi kanitz (Iridaceae)

Abstract

Iris loczyi is a perennial rhizomatous herb distributed in Central Asia. We examined genomic architecture of the complete chloroplast genome in I. loczyi by assembling the Illumina MiSeq reads using de novo strategy. The chloroplast genome is 150,940 bp in length harboring 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes. It exhibits typical quadripartite structure comprising LSC (80,907 bp), SSC (17,853 bp), and a pair of IRs (26,090 bp). Phylogenetic analysis of 20 chloroplast genomes from Asparagales revealed that Iridaceae is a monophyletic group and the I. loczyi is clustered together with the congener, I. sanguinea.

Keywords:

• Iris loczyi
• complete chloroplast genome
• Iridaceae

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in NCBI GenBank at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/, accession number MT254070.

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Funding

This work was supported by the grant ‘Central Asia Green Road Project II. Conservation of Plant Diversity and Ethnobotanical Research’ [KNA1-1-26, 20-1], financed by the Korea National Arboretum.