Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of medicinal plant Rheum officinale (Polygonaceae)

Yimin Li; Huan Li; Xiaobin Hei; Yuanmin Li; Hui Li; Jing Gao; Yonggang Yan; Mengmeng Liu; Gang Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1623102

Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of medicinal plant Rheum officinale (Polygonaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 10;4(2):2144-2145. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1623102.

Authors

Yimin Li¹, Huan Li¹, Xiaobin Hei^{1

2}, Yuanmin Li¹, Hui Li¹, Jing Gao¹, Yonggang Yan¹, Mengmeng Liu^{2

3}, Gang Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Pharmacy, Shaanxi Qinling Application Development and Engineering Center of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xi'an, China.
² Institute of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, China.
³ College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hebei University, Baoding, China.

Abstract

The complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Rheum officinale Baill. was determined based on the Illumina Sequencing data. The cp genome is 161,563 bp in length. The overall G + C content of the cp genome was 37.31%. The R. officinale cp genome contains 129 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes, eight rRNA genes (four rRNA species), and 37 tRNA genes (20 tRNA species). A neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree clarified that the cp genome of R. officinale was closely related to that of R. palmatum in Polygonaceae.

Keywords: Rheum officinale; chloroplast genome; herbal medicine.