Abstract
The complete chloroplast sequence of the desert poplar (Populus euphratica), a plant well-adapted to salt stress, was determined in this study. The genome consists of 156,766 bp containing a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 16,591 bp separated by a large single-copy region and a small single-copy region of 84,888 bp and 27,646 bp, respectively. The chloroplast genome contains 130 known genes, including 89 protein-coding genes, 8 ribosomal RNA genes, and 37 tRNA genes; 18 of these are located in the inverted repeat region.
Declaration of interest
This work was supported by National Science Foundation of China (U0936603), Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (2008CC016), the Hundreds Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Talent Program of Yunnan Province (20080A009), a grant from the Chinese Academy of Science (KSCX2-YW-N-029), a grant from Chinese Department of Science and Technology (973 Program 2007CB815703), Frontier Grant of Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS (672705232515), and a start-up grant from Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.