Abstract
Saussurea medusa is an important traditional Tibetan medicinal plant in China. In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of S. medusa. The complete S. medusa chloroplast genome is a circular molecular structure of 152,257 bp in length with coding GC 37.93%, consisting of two inverted repeats (25,204 bp) separated by a large single-copy region (83,334 bp) and a small single-copy region (18,515 bp). The complete chloroplast genome of S. medusa contained 130 genes, including 87 protein-coding genes, 35 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis shows that S. medusa is most closely related to Saussurea inversa and Saussurea pseudoleucoma. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of S. medusa facilitates the phylogenetic studies of Asteraceae.
Highlights
Saussurea medusa is an important traditional Tibetan medicinal plant in China
The plant has been commonly used as a traditional Tibetan medicine for the treatment of inducing abortion, nourishing blood, detoxifying (Wei et al 2020)
The research of S. medusa mainly focuses on chemical composition, pharmacological action, and cell culture
Summary
Saussurea medusa is an important traditional Tibetan medicinal plant in China. In this study, we assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of S. medusa. KEYWORDS Saussurea medusa; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis (Maximowicz 1881) belongs to the Saussurea Candolle, Asteraceae family. There are 289 species (191 endemics) of Saussurea in China (Wu et al 2011).
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