Comparative plastome assembly of the yellow ironweed () using Nanopore and Illumina reads.

Chloroplast genomes (plastomes) represent a very important source of valuable information for phylogenetic and biogeographic reconstructions. The use of short reads (as those produced from Illumina sequencing), along with read assembly, has been considered the "gold standard" for plastome reconstruction. However, short reads often cannot reconstruct long repetitive regions in chloroplast genomes.

The first complete chloroplast genome for the species-rich genus (Asteraceae).

L. 1753 is a species-rich genus of Asteraceae. It includes species of economic value as ornamental, edible and medicinal plants.