The chloroplast genome of Scutellaria franchetiana H.Lév. 1911 and its implications for phylogenetic relationships in the Scutellaria genus

• Published in: Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources Vol. 8; no. 11; pp. 1154 - 1157
• Main Authors: Yu, Jiabin, Huang, Ning, Wang, Chuliang, Gao, Weikai, Sun, Jutao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis Ltd 2023; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: chloroplast genome; Chloroplasts; Comparative analysis; Evolution; Fourier transforms; Genomes; Maximum likelihood method; Medicinal plants; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; rRNA; Scutellaria; Scutellaria franchetiana H.Lév; Scutellaria genus; Tobacco; Transfer RNA; tRNA; Scutellaria genus; Scutellaria franchetiana H.Lév; chloroplast genome
• ISSN: 2380-2359; 2380-2359
• DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2275829

H.Lév. 1911 is an important medicinal plant distributed on hillside wetlands at an altitude of 830-2300 m. The total length of complete chloroplast genome of
151,852 bp of 38.37% GC content. It is a typical quadratic structure with four subregions consisting of a large single-copy region (83,894 bp), a small single-copy region (17,520 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (25,219 bp). In the chloroplast genome of
130 genes were detected, comprising 86 protein-encoding genes, eight ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, and 36 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. The comparative analysis of complete chloroplast genome sequences including 68 common genes of 27 plants indicates that
has a close relative relationship with
and
. This work reported the first chloroplast genome of
, which provided a potential reference for studying phylogenetic relationships of the
genus.