The complete chloroplast genome of sweet tea (Lithocarpus polystachyus)

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The complete chloroplast genome of sweet tea (Lithocarpus polystachyus)

Yueqiao Li, Wei Guo, Ping He, Longhua Yu

Lithocarpus polystachyus, also known as the sweet tea, is a plant of the family Fagaceae. It is an evergreen tree and reaches a height of 7–15 m. It grows in dense forests at altitudes over 400 m and is widely distributed in southern China, India and Thailand (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1994 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1994. Iconographia Cormophytorum Sinicorum (Tomus I). Beijing: Science Press; p. 434. [Google Scholar]). Local people made beverage and traditional herbal medicine with L. polystachyus leaves showing anti-diabetic and anti-hypertensive biological activities (Hou et al. 2011 Hou S-Z, Chen S-X, Huang S, Jiang D-X, Zhou C-J, Chen C-Q, Liang Y-M, Lai X-P. 2011. The hypoglycemic activity of Lithocarpus polystachyus Rehd. leaves in the experimental hyperglycemic rats. J Ethnopharmacol. 138:142–149. [Google Scholar], 2012 Hou S-Z, Xu S-J, Jiang D-X, Chen S-X, Wang L-L, Huang S, Lai X-P. 2012. Effect of the flavonoid fraction of Lithocarpus polystachyus Rehd. on spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rats. J Ethnopharmacol. 143:441–447. [Google Scholar]). The genomic sequence information is urgently needed to promote molecular evolution, systematics research, conservation and utilization of L. polystachyus. The objectives of the present study were to reconstruct the cp genome of L. polystachyus and assess phylogenetic relationships.

Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23802359.2019.1638841

DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1638841