The Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100193, China.
Department of Pharmacy, Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine University, Nanning, 530200, Guangxi, China.
Sci Rep. 2017 Oct 12;7(1):12834. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-13401-4.
Numerous variations are known to occur in the chloroplast genomes of parasitic plants. We determined the complete chloroplast genome sequences of two hemiparasitic species, Taxillus chinensis and T. sutchuenensis, using Illumina and PacBio sequencing technologies. These species are the first members of the family Loranthaceae to be sequenced. The complete chloroplast genomes of T. chinensis and T. sutchuenensis comprise circular 121,363 and 122,562 bp-long molecules with quadripartite structures, respectively. Compared with the chloroplast genomes of Nicotiana tabacum and Osyris alba, all ndh genes as well as three ribosomal protein genes, seven tRNA genes, four ycf genes, and the infA gene of these two species have been lost. The results of the maximum likelihood and neighbor-joining phylogenetic trees strongly support the theory that Loranthaceae and Viscaceae are monophyletic clades. This research reveals the effect of a parasitic lifestyle on the chloroplast structure and genome content of T. chinensis and T. sutchuenensis, and enhances our understanding of the discrepancies in terms of assembly results between Illumina and PacBio.
寄生植物的叶绿体基因组存在大量变异。我们使用 Illumina 和 PacBio 测序技术,测定了两种半寄生植物——中国桑寄生和四川桑寄生的完整叶绿体基因组序列。这两个物种是檀香科中第一个被测序的成员。中国桑寄生和四川桑寄生的完整叶绿体基因组分别由长为 121363 和 122562bp 的圆形分子组成,具有四分体结构。与烟草和高山白珠树的叶绿体基因组相比,这两个物种的所有 ndh 基因以及三个核糖体蛋白基因、七个 tRNA 基因、四个 ycf 基因和 infA 基因都丢失了。最大似然和邻接聚类系统发育树的结果强烈支持檀香科和肉实科是单系群的理论。本研究揭示了寄生生活方式对中国桑寄生和四川桑寄生叶绿体结构和基因组内容的影响,增进了我们对 Illumina 和 PacBio 组装结果差异的理解。