The complete chloroplast genome of Aristolochia hainanensis Merr. (Aristolochiaceae)

Meixiu Lin; Mengxue Feng; Hui Zhou; Wei Gong; Rongjing Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2119816

The complete chloroplast genome of Aristolochia hainanensis Merr. (Aristolochiaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Sep 15;7(9):1650-1652. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2119816. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Meixiu Lin¹, Mengxue Feng¹, Hui Zhou¹, Wei Gong¹, Rongjing Zhang¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.

Abstract

Aristolochia hainanensis Merr. 1922, a well-known Chinese medicinal plant, is distributed in Hainan Province and Guangxi Province, China. In the current study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of A. hainanensis. The complete plastome genome was 159,764 bp in length, with a GC content of 38.8%, showing a typical quadripartite organization. The genome contained a large single-copy (LSC) of 89,134 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) of 19,306 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,662 bp. A total of 113 genes were annotated, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNAs, and four rRNAs. The trnK-UUU gene contained the longest intron (2644 bp). The topology of the maximum-likelihood tree supported a close relationship between A. hainanensis and A. kwangsiensis.

Keywords: Aristolochia hainanensis; chloroplast genome sequencing; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Numbers [41001028] and [41471046] and Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden of HoogKoon under Grant Number [4600H19501].