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Characterization of the Complete Chloroplast Genome of Rhus Chinensis (Anacardiaceae), An Important Medicinal and Economic Plant from China

Abstract

Rhus chinensis is a common deciduous tree in the warm temperate zone of eastern Asia, on which Chinese sumac aphids live to form gallnuts with rich tannins. Here, we assembled the complete chloroplast genome of R. chinensis with the shot-gun genome skimming method on an Illumina HiSeq4000 platform. The complete chloroplast genome of R. chinensis was 149,083 bp in length and had a standard quadripartite structure with the large (LSC, 97,271 bp) and small (SSC, 18,524 bp) single copy regions separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 16,644 bp each). We successfully annotated 126 genes, including 82 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNAs genes and eight rRNAs genes. Among these genes, 29 genes located in IR regions. The overall GC content of the complete chloroplast genome highly reaches 45.5%.

Zhumei Ren, Ting Lv, Xu Su and Jun Wen

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