The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Veratrum oxysepalum and phylogenetic analysis

Abstract

Veratrum oxysepalum Turcz. is a medicinal plant belonging to Melanthiaceae occurring in Northeast China. However, there are still limited genomic resources available for genus Veratrum. The complete chloroplast (cp) genome of V. oxysepalum was determined and analyzed in this study. The complete cp genome was 153,705 bp. That contains a large single copy (LSC) region of 83,384 bp, a small single copy (SSC) region of 17,607 bp, which were separated by a pair of 26,358 bp inverted repeat regions (IRs). A total of 135 genes were annotated, including 83 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNAs, and eight rRNAs. Phylogenetic analysis using total chloroplast genome sequence of 21 species revealed that V. oxysepalum was closely relates to V. patulum of Veratrum with 100% bootstrap value.

Keywords:

• Veratrum oxysepalum
• chloroplast genome
• medicinal plant
• phylogenetic analysis

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Data availability statement

The Veratrum oxysepalum data has been stored in nucleotide database of National Center of Biotechnology Information. GenBank accession number is MW147219. The SRA number is SRR14227219. All the information can be found on the website (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/).

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Funding

This research was funded by the High-end talent of Yunnan province ‘Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program’ (2020) to Guo-dong Li; the Reserve Talent for Academic and Young Technical Leaders of Yunnan Province (2020) to Guo-dong Li; Special Subsidies for Public Health services of “Fourth Chinese Materia Medica Resources Survey” [DSS, MOF. 43/2018].