Research Article

Characterization and Comparative Analysis of Two Rheum Complete Chloroplast Genomes

Table 1

Summary of the Rheum chloroplast genome characteristics.

Name of taxonR. nobileR. acuminatumR. palmatumR. wittrockii

GenBank accessionMK988314MN514858KR816224KY985269
Genome size (bp)161707161655161541159051
LSC size (bp)86778869098651884750
SSC size (bp)12839128061311112999
IR size (bp)31045309703095630651
Number of genes131131131131
Number of protein-coding genes86868686
Number of tRNA genes37373737
Number of rRNA genes8888
GC content in LSC (%)35.335.435.435.4
GC content in SSC (%)32.432.632.532.6
GC content in IR (%)41.141.141.141.1
GC content (%)37.337.437.337.5