Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Sophora japonica 'JinhuaiJ2' (Papilionaceae), an important traditional chinese herb.

Sophora japonica 'JinhuaiJ2' (Papilionaceae), known as Chinese Scholar Tree, is an important traditional herb with a long history of cultivation in China. It's well known for its valuable medicinal values due to its flower buds contains abundant rutin. Here, we reported and characterized its complete chloroplast genome based on Illumina paired-end sequencing data. The complete plastid genome was 158,690 bp, which contained inverted repeats (IR) of 25,339 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single copy (SSC) of 88,978 bp and 19,034 bp, respectively. The cpDNA contains 129 genes, comprising 83 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. The overall GC content of the plastome is 36.1%. The phylogenetic analysis of 18 selected chloroplast genomes demonstrated that S. japonica 'JinhuaiJ2' was close to the species Tapiscia sinensis.