Chloroplast characterizations of a Phalaenopsis native to China, Phalaenopsis mannii (Orchidaceae)

ABSTACT

Phalaenopsis mannii, one of the native Phalaenopsis in China, is an important parent for breeding new varieties. However, its position has been unclear in Phalaenopsis. The obtained high-quality P. mannii chloroplast genome will provide useful information for phylogenetic and future breeding of Phalaenopsis. Herein, we reported a complete chloroplast genome of P. mannii from Yunnan, China. The sequencing data obtained from BGISEQ-500 platform were assembled. This sequence had a circular molecular length of 148,596 bp and contained a total of 127 genes with an average GC content of 36.7%. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that Phalaenopsis was monophyletic with strong support, in which the P.mannii was the sister-group of Phalaenopsis aphrodite subsp. formosas, Phalaenopsis ‘TinyStar’ and Phalaenopsis equestris.

Keywords:

• Phalaenopsis mannii
• chloroplast genome
• phylogenetics

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Jieyu Wang, Yang Hao and Xiongde Tu for providing the information of the plant material.

Disclosure statement

There no conflicts of interest for all the authors. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.

Data availability statement

The raw data has been stored in omics database of Genome Sequence Archive. GSA accession number is CRA003144. All the information can be found on the website (https://bigd.big.ac.cn/gsa/browse/CRA003144/CRX150834).

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Funding

This work was supported by Project of National Key R & D Program [No. 2019YFD1001000302].