Characterization the complete chloroplast genome of Euryale ferox (Nymphaeaceae), an medicinal plant species in China.

Euryale ferox belongs to the family Nymphaeaceae that has been used as foods and medicines in China. In this study, we had been completed the complete chloroplast genome of Euryale ferox, which is 159,930 bp in length and has four sub-regions. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Euryale ferox contains 89,678 bp of a large single-copy region (LSC), 22,202 bp of small single-copy region (SSC) and 25,025 bp of two inverted repeat regions (IRs). The complete chloroplast genome of Euryale ferox is also consistent with other chloroplast genomes most plant species. The overall nucleotide composition of chloroplast genome sequence has: A (30.1%), T (30.8%), C (19.9%), G (19.2%) and the total GC content of 39.1%. Its sequence contains 127 genes, including 84 encoding genes, 35 transfer RNA genes and 8 ribosomal RNA genes. As the analysis result, the ML tree presents that Euryale ferox clustered with Nuphar advena belonging to the family Nymphaeaceae in genetic evolution relationship by the maximum likelihood (ML) methods.