Characteristics and phylogenetic relationship analysis of the chloroplast genome of Anethum foeniculum (Apiaceae)

Anethum foeniculum is an important medicinal plant in traditional Chinese medicine. In this paper, we characterized and reported the chloroplast genome of Anethum foeniculum. Its sequence length is 153,618 bp, which contains a large single-copy (LSC) region of 86,651 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 17,471 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IR) regions of 24,748 bp. The overall nucleotide composition of the chloroplast genome sequence is: A (30.8%), T (31.5%), C (19.2%), G (18.5%) and the total G + C content of 37.7%. The complete chloroplast genome sequence contains 130 genes, including 85 encoding genes, 37 transfer RNA genes and 8 ribosomal RNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis result of this study reveals that Anethum foeniculum is closely related to Anethum foeniculum (NC_029469) in the phylogenetic relationship.