The complete chloroplast genome of Rubus ellipticus var. obcordatus, an edible and medicinal dual-purpose plant

Abstract

Rubus ellipticus Sm. var. obcordatus Focke is an important species in the phylogeny and evolution of genus Rubus L. in the family Rosaceae. Its chloroplast genome, as reported in this study, is 155,656 bp in size, and it has an average GC content of 37.14%. The chloroplast genome showed a typical quadripartite structure comprising a large single copy (LSC) region (85,388 bp) and a small single copy (SSC) region (18,730 bp), which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 25,769 bp). In total, this plastome was found to contain 129 different genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The completed chloroplast genome of R. ellipticus var. obcordatus will set a new insight into clarifying the phylogeny and genomic studies in genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae.