The complete plastid genome of Aletris megalantha (Nartheciaceae), an endemic species from Yunnan Province of China

Abstract

Aletris megalantha F. T. Wang & Tang is an herbal plant species endemic to Yunnan Province of China. Its complete plastid genome sequence was 154,704 bp in length, with a large single-copy (LSC) region of 83,265 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,127 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 26,656 bp. The whole plastid genome encoded 132 genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The overall GC content of A. megalantha plastid genome was 37.4%. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis based on 14 taxa indicated that A. megalantha is evolutionarily close to A. spicata.

Keywords:

• Aletris megalantha
• endemic species
• Nartheciaceae
• phylogeny
• plastid genome

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences for providing the species of Aletris megalantha.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) under the accession no. MW080684. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA680851, SRR13148561, and SAMN16925232 respectively.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 31700179] and Yunnan Fundamental Research Project [Grant No. 202001AT070062].