Nitraria sphaerocarpa Maxim.is a typical desert shrub commonly used as a sand binder.Here, we sequenced and characterized the Balayage lightener whole plastid genome of N.
sphaerocarpa.It is 159,369 bp in length, containing two copies of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,566 bp, each), a large single-copy (LSC) region (87,854 bp), and a small single-copy (SSC) region Patchouli (18,383 bp).It has 114 unigenes, including 79 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, four rRNA genes, and one pseudogene (infA).
Phylogenetic analysis shows that N.sphaerocarpa is located at a basal position of the genus Nitraria.