The complete chloroplast genome of Sinomenium acutum (Menispermaceae)

Abstract

We generated the complete chloroplast genome sequence of Sinomenium acutum, a species of the Menispermaceae family, and characterized from the de novo assembly of Illumina HiSeq paired-end sequencing data. The total length of the chloroplast genome of S. acutum was 162,787 bp with a large single-copy (LSC) region of 91,430 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 21,245 bp, and a pair of identical inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 25,056 bp. The total of 131 genes were annotated in the chloroplast genome of Sinomenium acutum, including 85 protein-coding genes, 38 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and 8 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The phylogenetic analysis of S. acutum with 18 related species revealed the closest taxonomical relationship with Menispermum dauricum in the Menispermaceae family.

Keywords:

• Sinomenium acutum
• complete chloroplast genome
• next generation sequencing
• phylogenetic tree

Acknowledgements

We appreciate Mr. Sangil Han and Medicinal Herb Garden, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea, for providing us plant material of Sinomenium acutum.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reference number of MN626719.

Additional information

Funding

This research was supported by a grant [17162MFDS065] from Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Republic of Korea in 2020.