Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Taxus wallichiana as the medicinal plant from China

Abstract

Taxus wallichiana is a member of the family Taxaceae, which is a unique and endangered species in China and is widely used for ornamental, material and medicinal purposes. The complete chloroplast genome of T. wallichiana was found to possess a total size of 128,168 bp. The GC content of T. wallichiana chloroplast genome sequence is 37.3%, the overall nucleotide composition of chloroplast genome sequence is: A of 30.7%, T of 32.0%, C of 19.0% and G of 18.3%. The total of 116 genes were successfully annotated, which contained 83 protein-coding genes, 29 transfer RNA genes, and 4 ribosomal RNA genes. The ML phylogenetic analysis result showed that T. wallichiana was closely related to Taxus baccata in the phylogenetic relationship using the neighbour-joining (NJ) method in this study.

Keywords:

• Taxus wallichiana
• Taxaceae
• chloroplast genome
• phylogenetic relationship

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, upon reasonable request. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Taxus wallichiana at NCBI and http://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1799725, reference number [reference number NK9584421].

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Funding

This work was supported by Yun-nan Applied Basic Research Project-Kunming Medical University Union Foundation [2017FE468 (-135)].