The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the medicinal plant Andrographis paniculata

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome of Andrographis paniculata, an important medicinal plant with great economic value, has been studied in this article. The genome size is 150,249 bp in length, with 38.3% GC content. A pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 25,300 bp) are separated by a large single copy region (LSC, 82,459 bp) and a small single-copy region (SSC, 17,190 bp). The chloroplast genome contains 114 unique genes, 80 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes and 4 rRNA genes. In these genes, 15 genes contained 1 intron and 3 genes comprised of 2 introns.

• Andrographis paniculata
• complete chloroplast genome
• medicinal plant

Declaration of interest

This work was supported by grants from the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the 12th Five-year Plan Period of China (2011BAI01B01). The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.