The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium platypetalum K. Mey. (Berberidaceae), a rare plant species from China

Abstract

Epimedium L. is an important medicinal herbaceous genus in the family Berberidaceae. Epimedium platypetalum K. Mey. is a plant species only narrowly distributed in the western part of China. Here, the complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium platypetalum was assembled. The chloroplast genome of E. platypetalum was 159,088 bp in length, with a total GC content of 38.79%. A total of 112 unique genes were identified, among which 78 are protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes. Phylogenetic results revealed that E. platypetalum formed a sister relationship with E. membranaceum K. Mey. Our findings provided valuable data for future research on phylogenetic relationship and germplasm exploration within the genus Epimedium.

Keywords:

• Chloroplast genome
• Epimedium platypetalum
• infrageneric classification
• phylogenetic analysis
• Berberidaceae

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Professor Mikinori Ogisu for providing information for the sampling of Epimedium platypetalum.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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. MW483078. The associated numbers are PRJNA749730, SRR15254402, and SAMN20398933, respectively.

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Funding

This work was supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) under Grant [2017-I2M-3-013]; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [81473302]; the Chongqing Science and Technology Commission under Grants, [cstc2018jcyjAX0316, cc-cstc-CA-19-2, cstc2019jcyj-msxmx0464, cstc2019jxjl-jbky10007, and cstc2020jxjl10004].