Phylogenetic analyses of Lycium chinense (Solanaceae) and its coordinal species applying chloroplast genome

Shui-Lian He; Yang Tian; Yang Yang; Chong-Ying Shi

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1669087

Phylogenetic analyses of Lycium chinense (Solanaceae) and its coordinal species applying chloroplast genome

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jun 1;5(3):2201-2202. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1669087. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Shui-Lian He¹, Yang Tian², Yang Yang^{2

3}, Chong-Ying Shi⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Horticulture and Landscape, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
² Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biomass Big Data, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
³ College of Science, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
⁴ Institute of Food Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Abstract

Lycium chinense is an important edible and medicinal plant. Now, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of L. chinense was assembled based on the Illumina sequencing reads. The cp genome of L. chinense was 155,736 bp long and contained two short inverted repeat regions (25,469 bp), which were separated by a small single-copy region (18,206 bp) and a large single-copy region (86,592 bp). The cp genome encodes 113 unique genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 transfer RNA genes, and 4 ribosomal RNA genes. The topology of the phylogenetic tree showed that L. chinense is closely clustered with species Lycium ruthenicum and Lycium barbarum.

Keywords: Lycium chinense; chloroplast genome; medicinal and edible plant; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Chinese Cassava Agro-Technology Research System [CARS-11-YNSJ], Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Biological Big Data [2018DG024], and the Science and Technology Plan Projects of Yunnan Province [2016FD024]