Complete chloroplast genome of glyphosate resistant <i>Sonchus oleraceus</i> L. from Australia, with notes on the small single copy (SSC) region orientation

Abstract

<i>Sonchus oleraceus</i>, common sowthistle, is an asteraceous weed in Australian agricultural systems and has recently developed resistance to glyphosate. We present the complete chloroplast sequence of <i>S. oleracueus</i> reconstructed from Illumina whole genome shotgun sequencing. This is the first complete chloroplast genome available for the genus <i>Sonchus</i>. The complete chloroplast sequence is 151,808 bp long. A Bayesian phylogeny of the chloroplast coding regions of the tribe Cichorieae (Asteraceae) is presented. The <i>S. oleraceus</i> chloroplast genome is deposited at GenBank under accession number MG878405.