Abstract

Cephalotus follicularis is a carnivorous plant native to southwest Australia that belongs to the monospecific family Cephalotaceae. It forms both carnivorous pitcher leaves and non-carnivorous flat leaves, the pitcher leave makes it able to attract, catch, and digest their preys, usually insects, and assimilate nutrients for the growth. Previous studies of the plastid genome in carnivorous plants show various evolutionary changes. In this study, we report the complete plastid genome of C. follicularis, the circular plastid genome possesses a total length 142,706 bp with the typical quadripartite structure of angiosperms, contains 100 genes, the whole set of ndh-gene family in C. follicularis have been truncated or pseudogenized. Phylogenetic analyses based on plastid coding genes showed that C. follicularis and Averrhoa carambola formed the clade corresponding to Oxalidales. The complete plastome sequence of C. follicularis will provide a useful resource for the evolutionary biology study of carnivorous plants as well as for the phylogenetic studies in Oxalidales.

Details

Title
The complete plastid genome of carnivorous pitcher plant Cephalotus follicularis
Author
Cao, Mengxia 1 ; Li, Zhanghai 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dai, Xiaoyu 1 ; Wu, Xiaoqian 1 ; Li, Yunxia 1 ; Wu, Shasha 1 

1  Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration for Orchid Conservation and Utilization at College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China; 
2  State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
Pages
2025-2027
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Jul 2019
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
23802359
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1617054
ProQuest document ID
2352038566
Copyright
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