Lonicera maackii is scattered in west and northeast China as well as adjacent Korea, Japan and Russia. Scientists have assembled and characterized the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of L. maackii using Illumina sequencing data for the first time.
The complete cp genome was 155,337 bp in length, consisting of a pair of inverted repeats of 23,718 bp, a large single-copy region of 89,221 bp and a small single-copy region of 18,680 bp.
The genome encoded 113 unique genes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes and four rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis based on 25 complete cp genome sequences indicated that L. maackii is closely related to Lonicera sachalinensis and Lonicera insularis.
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