Dataset on ITS and some chloroplast DNA regions of Boehmeria holosericea Blume in Vietnam.

Abstract

Species of the Boehmeria genus have the potential to be natural medicines and have industrial fibre production uses. Many species of this genus are morphologically similar and are difficult to distinguish, especially when their morphology is distorted. This dataset includes sequence information of several DNA regions isolated from the genome of Boehmeria holosericea, namely ITS (from the nuclear genome), matK, trnL-trnF, trnH-psbA, and rpoC1 (from the chloroplast genome) and phylogenetic analysis results based on the isolated sequences. On the phylogenetic tree based on the matK gene sequence, B. holosericea is grouped with B. umbrosa, B. clidemioides, B. spicata, and B. macrophylla with a bootstrap coefficient of 100%. In the phylogenetic tree based on the trnH-psbA spacer region sequences, B. holosericea was grouped with B. clidemioides (a bootstrap coefficient of 96%). In the phylogenetic tree based on the rpoC1 gene sequences, B. holosericea was grouped with B. spicata (a bootstrap coefficient of 100%). In the phylogenetic tree based on the ITS region sequences, B. holosericea was grouped with B. macrophylla (a bootstrap coefficient of 73%), and based on the trnL-trnF spacer region, B. holosericea was grouped with B. pilociuscula (a bootstrap coefficient of 16%). Two genes, matK and rpoC1 and the trnH-psbA region from the chloroplast genome, are potential DNA barcode candidates that could aid in the species identification of B. holosericea. This dataset the first report on the ITS, matK, trnL-trnF, trnH-psbA, and rpoC1 sequences and the phylogeny of B. holosericea.