Sugarcane is the primary sugar crop. Saccharum officinarum accounts for eighty to ninety percent of the genome in modern interspecific hybrid cultivars. Sequencing the LA Purple genome resulted in the
Chloroplast genome of S. officinarum has been sequenced at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan. It is 141,182 bp in size. Genome analysis indicate that the S. officinarum chloropl