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. 2020 Nov 6;5(3):3697–3698. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1806752

The complete chloroplast genome of Polygonatum odoratum (Liliaceae), an endemic medicinal herb

Ze-Huan Wang 1, Ya-Qiong Li 1,✉
PMCID: PMC7655049  PMID: 33367072

Abstract

In this study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of Polygonatum odoratum with Illumina sequencing technology. The complete chloroplast genome length is 156,082bp, shows a typical tetrad structure, which manifests as one large and one small single copy (LSC and SSC) regions of 85,009 and 18,513bp, isolated by two inverted repeat regions (IRs) of 26,280bp. This study annotated altogether 131 unique genes, consisting of 86 protein-encoding genes, 8 rRNA and 38tRNA. According to the maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 8 complete chloroplast genomes, P. odoratum shows close association with additional Maianthemum genus. The chloroplast genome-wide for P. odoratum would help to conserving the precious natural populations.

Keywords: Complete chloroplast genome, Polygonatum odoratum, phylogenetic analysis, Liliaceae

Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce, a typical representative of the Liliaceae family, is a perennial herbaceous plant that is widely distributed in East Asia and Europe (Zhao et al. 2018). It has been found to contain several components with bioactive effects, including polysaccharides, steroidal glycosides, dipeptides, flavonoids, amino acids, and trace mineral elements(Lin et al. 1994; Deng et al. 2012). Its rhizomes are regarded as the medicinal parts of the plant, and have been used extensively to treat diseases such as rheumatic heart disease, hypoimmunity, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes (China Pharmacopoeia Committee 2015). Polygonatum odoratum has been recognized as the endemic medicinal perennial herb because resources of this herb are diminishing due to uncontrolled harvesting. Therefore, it is necessary for us to learn more about its genetic data and pay more attention to it. Notably, the chloroplast genome-wide for P. odoratum would help to conserve the precious natural populations.

In this study, silica-gel-dried leaves of P. odoratum were collected from Xianggelila of Yunnan Province, China (99°39.844E, 27°53.684 N), and voucher specimens (PO201909001) were deposited in the Herbarium of Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine. Total genomic DNA was extracted with the CTAB method (Doyle and Doyle 1987). We sequenced the complete chloroplast genome with Illumina Hiseq X-Ten (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA), and 2.16 GB of sequence data was generated.The reads of the complete chloroplast genome were assembled using de novo assembling constructed in SPAdes 3.9.1 (Bankevich et al. 2012) using kmer lengths of 21–105bp, followed by reference guided assembling conducted with Bandage 0.8.1 (Wick et al. 2015) and Geneious 9.1.4 (Kearse et al. 2012). Polygonatum humile (MN218691) was used as reference for annotation using GeSeq (Tillich et al. 2017), coupled with manual correction for boundaries. The circular chloroplast genome map was drawn usingthe OGDRAW program (Greiner et al. 2019). To identify the phylogenetic position of P. odoratum, the maximum likelihood (ML) tree was reconstructed based on 8 species complete chloroplast genomes by MEGA X (Kumar et al. 2018).

The complete chloroplast genome of P. odoratum was 156,082 bp in length (GenBank accession number: MT646047), the GC content was 37.7%. LSC and SSC contained 85,009 bp and 18,513bp, respectively, while IR was 26,280 bp in length. A total of 131 unique genes were annotated, including 38tRNA, 8 rRNA, and 85 protein-coding genes. Seven protein-coding genes, nine tRNA and four rRNA genes were duplicated in the IR regions. In total, 18 intron-containing gene were in the chloroplast genome of P. odoratum of which three genes (rps12, clpP and ycf3) include two introns and the rest include a single intron.

Six chloroplast genomes of Polygonatum and one outgroup chloroplast genome were used for constructing maximum likelihoob (bootstrap repeat is 1000). Phylogenetic trees show that P. odoratum and other Polygonatum species formed a monophyletic clade with 100% bootstrap support value (Figure 1). Alignment was conducted using MAFFT (Katoh and Standley 2013).The complete chloroplast genome of P. odoratum would help to understanding the genetic information and conserving the precious natural populations.

Figure 1.

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Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 8 complete chloroplast genomes (bootstrap repeat is 1000).

Funding Statement

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [No. 31460277].

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reference number MT646047.

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Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reference number MT646047.

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