The complete chloroplast genome of Amygdalus mira (Rosaceae) a threatened wild Chinese peach.

Amygdalus mira (Koehne) Ricker (Basionym: Prunus mira Koehne) is a wild relative species of peach belonging to Rosaceae family. It is likely the oldest progenitor of peach and considered threatened or even on the verge of extinction, which requires urgent conservation attention. To contribute to such efforts, complete chloroplast genome of A. mira was assembled using Illumina Hiseq 2500 platform. The cpDNA genome is 157,330 bp in length and has a GC content of 36.80%, with a typical circular quadripartite structure comprising a pair of inverted repeats (IRA and IRB) separated by two single-copy regions. The cpDNA genome consisted of 88 coding sequences (CDS), 37 tRNAs and 8 rRNAs genes. 583 simple sequence repeat (SSR) motifs were identified, where hexa-nucleotide was the most common (27.7% of all SSRs). The complete cpDNA genome of A. mira will be of valuable data for the upcoming research on comparative population genomics of peach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]