title: The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the medicinal plant Rheum palmatum L. (Polygonaceae).
abstract: The complete chloroplast genome of the medicinal plant Rheum palmatum L. (Polygonaceae) has been reconstructed from the whole-genome Illumina sequencing data. The genome is 161 541 bp in length, and exhibits a typical quadripartite structure of the large (LSC, 86 518 bp) and small (SSC, 13 111 bp) single-copy regions, separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 30 956 bp each). The chloroplast genome contains 131 genes, including 84 protein-coding genes (78 PCG species), eight ribosomal RNA genes (four rRNA species) and 37 transfer RNA genes (28 tRNA species). Phylogenetic tree based on the maximum parsimony (MP) analysis of 65 chloroplast protein-coding genes for 13 taxa demonstrated a close relationship between R. palmatum and Fagopyrum esculentum subsp. ancestrale in Polygonaceae.
authors.affiliation: a School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , PR China.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: a School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , PR China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Jie
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: a School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , PR China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: a School of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , PR China.
authors.forename: Xu-Mei
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition; D061125:Genes, Chloroplast; D017343:Genes, Plant; D059646:Genome Size; D054628:Genome, Chloroplast; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D012250:Rheum / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing
keywords: Chloroplast genome; Illumina sequencing; MITObim; Rheum palmatum L.