Predicting the potential distribution of medicinal plants in response to climate change is essential for their conservation and management. Contributing to the management program, this study aimed to predict the distr...Predicting the potential distribution of medicinal plants in response to climate change is essential for their conservation and management. Contributing to the management program, this study aimed to predict the distribution of two threatened medicinal plants, Fritillaria cirrhosa and Lilium nepalense. The location of focal species gathered from herbarium specimen housed in different herbaria and online databases were geo-referenced and checked for spatial autocorrelation. The predictive environmental variables were selected, and MaxEnt software was used to model the current and future distributions of focal species. Four Representative Concentration Pathway （RCP） trajectories of the BCC-CSMI.1 model were used as the future （2050） projection layer. The MaxEnt modelling delineated the potential distribution of F. cirrhosa and L. nepalense. The current suitability is projected towards Central and Eastern Hilly/Mountainous regions. Both species gain maximum suitability in RCP 4.5 which decline towards other trajectories for L. nepalense. Overall, both the focal species shift towards the north-west, losing their potential habitat in hilly and lower mountainous regions by 2050 across all trajectories. Our results highlight the impact of future climate change on two threatened and valuable species. The results can be further useful to initiate farming of these medicinally and economically important species based on climatically suitable zone and for designing a germplasm conservation strategy.展开更多
Lilium nepalense D. Don is an ornamental plant and exhibits high morphological variation across its distribution range in China. There is incongruence between different data sets for the status of it in Lilium. In thi...Lilium nepalense D. Don is an ornamental plant and exhibits high morphological variation across its distribution range in China. There is incongruence between different data sets for the status of it in Lilium. In this study, we reported a complete chloroplast genome of L. nepalense sampled in Hengduan Mountains, China. The whole chloroplast genome possessed a total length of 152,206 bp with typical circular structure, and contained a large single copy (LSC) of 81,854 bp and a small single copy (SSC) of 17,563 bp, which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRa/IRb) of 26,399 bp. The average GC content among the whole chloroplast genome sequence was 37%, and the GC content in LSC, SSC, IRs regions were 34.8%, 30.6%, and 42.5%, respectively. There were 135 genes detected from the whole chloroplast genome sequence, including 89 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNAs, and 8 rRNAs. Phylogenetic results using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods showed congruent results that L. nepalense together with the other two L. nepalense samples collected from different habitats formed a single branch, indicating a close relationship of L. nepalense with L. taliense belonging to the section Sinomartagon. This newly characterized chloroplast genome will provide essential data for the further population genetics research of L. nepalense.展开更多
基金Cornell Nepal Study Program for the partial financial supports to carry out field worksupported from the CGIAR research programs on'Forests,Trees and Agroforestry'(CRP6.2)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31270524)
文摘Predicting the potential distribution of medicinal plants in response to climate change is essential for their conservation and management. Contributing to the management program, this study aimed to predict the distribution of two threatened medicinal plants, Fritillaria cirrhosa and Lilium nepalense. The location of focal species gathered from herbarium specimen housed in different herbaria and online databases were geo-referenced and checked for spatial autocorrelation. The predictive environmental variables were selected, and MaxEnt software was used to model the current and future distributions of focal species. Four Representative Concentration Pathway （RCP） trajectories of the BCC-CSMI.1 model were used as the future （2050） projection layer. The MaxEnt modelling delineated the potential distribution of F. cirrhosa and L. nepalense. The current suitability is projected towards Central and Eastern Hilly/Mountainous regions. Both species gain maximum suitability in RCP 4.5 which decline towards other trajectories for L. nepalense. Overall, both the focal species shift towards the north-west, losing their potential habitat in hilly and lower mountainous regions by 2050 across all trajectories. Our results highlight the impact of future climate change on two threatened and valuable species. The results can be further useful to initiate farming of these medicinally and economically important species based on climatically suitable zone and for designing a germplasm conservation strategy.
文摘Lilium nepalense D. Don is an ornamental plant and exhibits high morphological variation across its distribution range in China. There is incongruence between different data sets for the status of it in Lilium. In this study, we reported a complete chloroplast genome of L. nepalense sampled in Hengduan Mountains, China. The whole chloroplast genome possessed a total length of 152,206 bp with typical circular structure, and contained a large single copy (LSC) of 81,854 bp and a small single copy (SSC) of 17,563 bp, which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRa/IRb) of 26,399 bp. The average GC content among the whole chloroplast genome sequence was 37%, and the GC content in LSC, SSC, IRs regions were 34.8%, 30.6%, and 42.5%, respectively. There were 135 genes detected from the whole chloroplast genome sequence, including 89 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNAs, and 8 rRNAs. Phylogenetic results using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods showed congruent results that L. nepalense together with the other two L. nepalense samples collected from different habitats formed a single branch, indicating a close relationship of L. nepalense with L. taliense belonging to the section Sinomartagon. This newly characterized chloroplast genome will provide essential data for the further population genetics research of L. nepalense.
