title: The complete plastid genome sequence of Panax notoginseng, a famous traditional Chinese medicinal plant of the family Araliaceae.
abstract: We report complete nucleotide sequence of the Panax notoginseng chloroplast genome using next-generation sequencing technology. The genome consists of 156 324 bp containing a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 26 105 bp, which was separated by a large single-copy region and a small single-copy region of 86 082 bp and 18 032 bp, respectively. The P. notoginseng cp genome encodes 114 unigenes (80 protein-coding genes, 4 rRNA genes, and 30 tRNA genes), in which 18 are duplicated in the IR regions. The genic regions account for 51.1% of whole cp genome, and the GC content of the plastome was 38.1%. A phylogenomic analysis of the 10 complete chloroplast genomes from Araliaceae using Hydrocotyle verticillata outgroup showed that P. notoginseng is closely related to P. ginseng that belongs to the genus Panax.
authors.affiliation: a Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering , Kunming University of Science and Technology , Kunming , China and.|b Faculty of Life Science and Technology , Kunming University of Science and Technology , Kunming , China.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Life Science and Technology , Kunming University of Science and Technology , Kunming , China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Life Science and Technology , Kunming University of Science and Technology , Kunming , China.
authors.forename: Chengwen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Life Science and Technology , Kunming University of Science and Technology , Kunming , China.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Life Science and Technology , Kunming University of Science and Technology , Kunming , China.
authors.forename: Li-Zhi
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000235:genetics*; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D023061:Gene Order; D020131:Genes, Duplicate; D059646:Genome Size; D054628:Genome, Chloroplast; D053723:Panax notoginseng / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Araliaceae; Panax notoginseng; chloroplast genome