Comparing chloroplast genomes of traditional Chinese herbs Schisandra sphenanthera and S. chinensis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Schisandra sphenanthera and S. chinensis are the two important medicinal plants that have long been used under the names of "Nan-Wuweizi" and "Wuweizi", respectively. The misuse of "Nan-Wuweizi" and "Wuweizi" in herbal medical products calls for an accurate method to distinguish these herbs. Chloroplast (cp) genomes have been widely used in species delimitation and phylogeny due to their uniparental inheritance and lower substitution rates than that of the nuclear genomes. To develop more efficient DNA markers for distinguishing S. sphenanthera, S. chinensis, and the related species, we sequenced the cp genome of S. sphenanthera and compared it to that of S. chinensis.

Methods

The cp genome of S. sphenanthera was seq

SUBMITTER: Wei XP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9476811 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature