Complete chloroplast genome sequences of two Amomum species (Zingiberaceae)

Ying-Min Zhang; Cong-Wei Yang; Ying-Ying Liu; Yao-Wen Yang; Xiao-Li Liu; Guo-Dong Li

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1682951

Complete chloroplast genome sequences of two Amomum species (Zingiberaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Oct 26;4(2):3795-3796. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1682951.

Authors

Ying-Min Zhang¹, Cong-Wei Yang¹, Ying-Ying Liu², Yao-Wen Yang¹, Xiao-Li Liu¹, Guo-Dong Li^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China.
² Yunnan Institute for Food and Drug, Kunming, China.
³ Yunnan Key Laboratory for Dai and Yi Medicines, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Abstract

Amomum tsao-ko and Amomum paratsaoko are well known medicinal and edible plants with a strong fragrance and flavour in China. Here, we have sequenced the two complete chloroplast genomes of Amomum tsao-ko and Amomum paratsaoko, which are 163,612 bp and 163,487 bp in length, respectively, and exhibited LSC and SSC regions separated by a pair of inverted repeat regions. The cp genome of A. tsao-ko has 120 annotated genes, including 82 protein-coding genes, while A. paratsaoko has 121 annotated genes, including 83 protein-coding genes. Both cp genomes contained 30 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis using a total chloroplast genome DNA sequence of 28 species revealed a close relationship between A. tsao-ko and A. paratsaoko with 100% bootstrap value.

Keywords: Amomum paratsaoko; Amomum tsao-ko; chloroplast genome; phylogenomic analysis.