Achillea is a crop with Chinese herbal characteristics and horticultural values. Its leaves and flowers contain aromatic oil, and the ripe herb can also be used as medicine to induce sweat and relieve rheumatic pains. It is seen cultivated in gardens all over China. Currently, the most comprehensive chloroplast genome sample involved in the study refers to New World clades of Achillea, which are used for marker selection and phylogenetic research. We completely sequenced the chloroplast genomes of Achillea millefolium. These sequencing results showed that the plastid genome is 149,078 bp in size and possesses a typical quadripartite structure containing one large single copy (LSC) with 82,352 bp, one small single copy (SSC) with 18,426 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions with 24,150 bp in Achillea millefolium. The chloroplast genome encodes a common number of genes, of which 88 are protein-coding genes, 37 transfer ribonucleic acid genes, and 8 ribosomal ribonucleic acid genes, which are highly similar in overall size, genome structure, gene content, and sequence. The exact similarity was observed when compared to other Asteraceae species. However, there were structural differences due to the restriction or extension of the inverted repeat (IR) regions-the palindromic repeats being the most prevalent form. Based on 12 whole-plastomes, 3 hypervariable regions (rpoB, rbcL, and petL-trnP-UGG) were discovered, which could be used as potential molecular markers.
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