The complete chloroplast genome of Dendrobium nobile, an endangered medicinal orchid from north-east India and its comparison with related Dendrobium species
Ruchishree Konhar,
Manish Debnath,
Santosh Vishwakarma,
Atanu Bhattacharjee,
Durai Sundar,
Pramod Tandon,
Debasis Dash,
Devendra Kumar Biswal
Affiliations
Ruchishree Konhar
Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Manish Debnath
Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Santosh Vishwakarma
Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Atanu Bhattacharjee
Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Durai Sundar
Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Pramod Tandon
Biotech Park, Kursi road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Debasis Dash
Informatics and Big Data, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India
Devendra Kumar Biswal
Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India
The medicinal orchid genus Dendrobium belonging to the Orchidaceae family is a huge genus comprising about 800–1,500 species. To better illustrate the species status in the genus Dendrobium, a comparative analysis of 33 available chloroplast genomes retrieved from NCBI RefSeq database was compared with that of the first complete chloroplast genome of D. nobile from north-east India based on next-generation sequencing methods (Illumina HiSeq 2500-PE150). Our results provide comparative chloroplast genomic information for taxonomical identification, alignment-free phylogenomic inference and other statistical features of Dendrobium plastomes, which can also provide valuable information on their mutational events and sequence divergence.
