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Eulophia zollingeri (Orchidaceae) is a vulnerable plant in China. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of E. zollingeri is assembled based on high-throughput sequencing data for the first time. The complete chloroplast of E. zollingeri is 145,201 bp in length, containing a large single copy (LSC) of 81,566 bp, a small single copy of 13,091 bp and a pair of inverted repeats of 25,272 bp. The overall GC content of the genome is 37.1%. The cp genome contains 86 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis based on chloroplast genomes indicates that E. zollingeri is closely related to the orchid within the Epidendroideae subfamily.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20170311).
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Huo, X., Zhao, Y., Qian, Z. et al. Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Eulophia zollingeri, an endangered orchid in China. Conservation Genet Resour 10, 817–819 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-017-0938-3
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