Complete chloroplast genome of a Chinese endemic species Corydalis trisecta Franch. (Papaveraceae)

Nazish Kanwal; Xiao Zhang; Nawal Afzal; Jia Yang; Zhonghu Li; Guifang Zhao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1627930

Complete chloroplast genome of a Chinese endemic species Corydalis trisecta Franch. (Papaveraceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 11;4(2):2291-2292. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1627930.

Authors

Nazish Kanwal¹, Xiao Zhang¹, Nawal Afzal¹, Jia Yang¹, Zhonghu Li¹, Guifang Zhao¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Corydalis trisecta Franch. is an endemic plant found in China. In this study, we presented the first complete chloroplast genome of C. trisecta, which was assembled and characterized based on Illumina pair-end sequencing data. The complete chloroplast genome was 161,410 bp in length, with a GC content of 41.4% in total. Its structure contained a large single copy (LSC) region of 89,127 bp and a small single copy (SSC) region of 16,993 bp, which were separated by a pair of extremely inverted repeats (IRs) of 27,645 bp each, with GC content 39.8, 87.2, and 45.2%, respectively. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that C. triscta was sister to Lamprocapons spectabilis in Papaveraceae.

Keywords: Cordalis trisecta Franch.; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic relationship.