Complete chloroplast genome of Toona sinensis (Meliaceae), a goluptious ‘tree vegetables’

Abstract Toona sinensis, also known as Xiangchun in Chinese, is a popular ‘tree vegetables’ and famous medicinal plant with good economic value. In our study, we sequenced the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of T. sinensis using the llumina sequencing platform. The cp genome of T. sinensis is a characteristic four-party structure with a length of 157,228？bp, which contains two 26,994？bp inverted repeats (IRs), an 85,971？bp large single copy (LSC), and a 17,269？bp small single copy (SSC). We identified a total of 126 genes, of which clouding 82 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes, and eight rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis showed that T. sinensis was closely related to the congeneric T. ciliata