Complete chloroplast genome of the economically important crop, Amorphophallus konjac (Araceae)

摘要

Konjac (Amorphophallus konjac K. Koch) is a perennial herb with high commercial and medicinal values. To better understand its genetic and genomic profiles, we sequenced and assembled the completed chloroplast genome of A. konjac. The complete chloroplast genome is 155,277?bp in length, consisting of the large (LSC, 85,412?bp) and the small single-copy region (SSC, 19,449?bp), which were separated by a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRs, 25,208?bp). It possesses 113 unique genes (80protein-coding genes, 29 tRNAs and 4rRNAs). Phylogenetic analysis suggests that A. konjac is closely related to Colocasia esculenta and Pinellia ternata .