The complete chloroplast genome of Swertia cordata

Li Huang; Chunlin Chen; Qiao Yang; Wenjie Yang; Quanjun Hu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1681310

The complete chloroplast genome of Swertia cordata

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Oct 30;4(2):3818-3819. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1681310.

Authors

Li Huang¹, Chunlin Chen¹, Qiao Yang¹, Wenjie Yang¹, Quanjun Hu¹

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Bio-Resource and Eco-Environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China.

Abstract

Swertia cordata, a herbaceous plant, has been used in medicines as an alternative febrifuge and anthelmintic. In this study, the complete chloroplast DNA sequence of S. cordata was assembled. It is 153,429 bp in length, including a large single-copy region of 83,613 bp and a small single-copy region of 18,038 bp separated by a pair of inverted repeat regions of 25,889 bp each. A total of 129 genes are detected, including 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. The complete chloroplast genome of S. cordata will help to study the genetic diversity and phylogenetic analysis of Swertia.

Keywords: Swertia cordata; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.