The complete chloroplast genome of hemiparasitic flowering plant Schoepfia jasminodora

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome hemiparasitic plant Schoepfia jasminodora (Schoepfiaceae), was determined in this study by de novo assembly with whole-genome sequence data. The chloroplast genome is 118,743 bp in length with a typical quadripartite structure containing a pair of inverted repeats of 12,406 bp, separated by a large and a small single copy fragments of 84,168 bp and 9763 bp, respectively. The chloroplast genome contains 112 genes that consisting of 69 protein-coding, 27 tRNA, 4 rRNA and 3 pseudolized genes. All of the ndh (except for ndhA) and two tRNA (trnV-UAG and trnGUCC) genes were found to be lost. The three pseudogenes are ndhA, ycf15 and trnL-CAA. Schoepfia represents the early stages of chloroplast genome degradation along with its transition to heterotrophy in related taxa.