The complete chloroplast genome of Persicaria maackiana (Regel) Nakai ex T. Mori (Polygonaceae) in Korea

Kang-Rae Kim; So Young Park; Sun-Yu Kim; Young Taek Oh; Jeong-Nam Yu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2119821

The complete chloroplast genome of Persicaria maackiana (Regel) Nakai ex T. Mori (Polygonaceae) in Korea

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Sep 15;7(9):1669-1671. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2119821. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Kang-Rae Kim¹, So Young Park¹, Sun-Yu Kim¹, Young Taek Oh¹, Jeong-Nam Yu¹

Affiliation

¹ Animal & Plant Research Department, Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources, Sangju, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Persicaria maackiana (Regel) Nakai ex T. Mori (1922), a species of the Polygonaceae family, is an annual plant widely distributed in Northeast Asia. We aimed to sequence the complete chloroplast genome of P. maackiana using Illumina HiSeq paired-end sequencing. The chloroplast genome was determined to be 160,635 bp. The complete chloroplast genome contained 129 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA, and eight rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis of the chloroplast genome sequences of 15 Polygonaceae plants revealed that P. maackiana was most closely related to P. perfoliata. Our findings might be useful for future phylogenetic studies of Polygonaceae.

Keywords: Illumina sequencing; Persicaria maackiana; Polygonaceae; chloroplast genome.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) through the Project to make multi-ministerial national biological research resources more advanced, funded by Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) [2021003420003].