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Complete chloroplast genome of a medicinal species Polygonatum kingianum in China (Asparagaceae, Asparagales).

ABSTRACT: Polygonatum kingianum is a medicinal and food plant distributed in most of countries throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Here we report on the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of P. kingianum. The cp genome is 155,399 bp in size and includes two inverted repeat regions of 52,7411 bp, which is separated by a large single-copy region of 84,234 bp and a small single copy region of 18,424 bp. A total of 130 genes were predicted, including 38 tRNA, 8 rRNA, and 84 protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analysis placed P. kingianum under the subfamily Nolinoideae of the family Asparagaceae.

SUBMITTER: Jin J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7748866 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:BackgroundPolygonatum kingianum has been widely used as a traditional Chinese medicine as well as a healthy food. Because of its highly variable morphology, this medicinal plant is often difficult to distinguish from other related verticillate leaf types of the Polygonatum species. The contaminants in P. kingianum products not only decrease the products' quality but also threaten consumer safety, seriously inhibiting the industrial application of P. kingianum.MethodsNine complete chloroplast (cp) genomes of six verticillate leaf types of the Polygonatum species were de novo assembled and systematically analyzed.ResultsThe total lengths of newly sequenced cp genomes ranged from 155,437 to 155,977 bp, including 86/87 protein-coding, 38 tRNA, and 8 rRNA genes, which all exhibited well-conserved genomic structures and gene orders. The differences in the IR/SC (inverted repeats/single-copy) boundary regions and simple sequence repeats were detected among the verticillate leaf types of the Polygonatum cp genomes. Comparative cp genomes analyses revealed that a higher similarity was conserved in the IR regions than in the SC regions. In addition, 11 divergent hotspot regions were selected, providing potential molecular markers for the identification of the Polygonatum species with verticillate leaf types. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that, as a super barcode, plastids realized a fast and efficient identification that clearly characterized the relationships within the verticillate leaf types of the Polygonatum species. In brief, our results not only enrich the data on the cp genomes of the genus Polygonatum but also provide references for the P. kingianum germplasm resource protection, herbal cultivation, and drug production.ConclusionThis study not only accurately identifies P. kingianum species, but also provides valuable information for the development of molecular markers and phylogenetic analyses of the Polygonatum species with verticillate leaf types.

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Complete chloroplast genome of a medicinal species Polygonatum kingianum in China (Asparagaceae, Asparagales).

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