1 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA Amanda.Windsor@fda.hhs.gov.
2 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA.
3 United States Pharmacopeia, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
4 Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Curcuma longa L. is a native species of Asia that is commonly known as turmeric. It is a spice also used in traditional medicine to treat a wide range of illnesses. Here, we present the fully annotated chloroplast genome of Curcuma longa.