Characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of the complete chloroplast genome of Rubus swinhoei Hance 1866 from the family Rosaceae

Rubus swinhoei Hance is an important plant owing to its medicinal root and edible fruit, and extensively distributed in China. In this study, we reported the complete chloroplast genome of R. swinhoei. The chloroplast genome was 156,335 bp in size with the overall GC content of 37.15%, having a circular and quadripartite structure, which contained a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single-copy (SSC) regions of 85,897 bp and 18,858 bp separated by a pair of 25,790 bp inverted repeat (IR) regions. The complete chloroplast genome comprised 131 unique genes of which 86 and 37 were protein-coding genes and tRNA genes, respectively, and also eight rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that R. swinhoei was closely related to R. kawakamii. The genome information reported in this paper will be beneficial for further investigation on the evolution of this species.