Comparison on the complete plastome genome between the wild and cultivated Angelica sinensis (Apiaceae), a famous Chinese medicinal herb

Angelica sinensis is one of the most widely used Chinese medicinal herb. It has been cultivated for over 900 years, and the wild resource has been on the verge of extinction owing to over-exploitation. In the present study, we assembled and characterized the complete chloroplast (cp) genomes of two wild and one cultivated individuals of A. sinensis for future genetic studies. These plastome genomes varied from 142,484 to 142,529 bp in size, and overall GC contents were about 37.5%. Phylogenetic analysis and comparison on the cp genome structure reveal that the wild A. sinensis sampled should not be the wild ancestor, but the escape of the cultivated.