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To resolve these persistent difficulties, we sequenced and assembled the complete chloroplast genomes of two medicinally important Iranian species,\n                    <jats:italic>Stachys persica<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>Stachys germanica<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    , and compared them against seven congeneric genomes. Despite an overall picture of strong structural conservation across the genus, we discovered that evolutionary variation concentrates in specific genomic hotspots. Several non\u2010coding intergenic spacers, most notably\n                    <jats:italic>trnL\u2010trnF<\/jats:italic>\n                    , along with the\n                    <jats:italic>matK<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>ycf1<\/jats:italic>\n                    genes emerged as exceptionally variable regions, making them promising candidates for species\u2010level DNA barcoding. In a more surprising finding, we detected clear signatures of positive selection acting on the photosynthetic gene\n                    <jats:italic>petB<\/jats:italic>\n                    , suggesting that even core energy pathways have experienced adaptive refinement within this lineage. Phylogenetically, whole\u2010plastome data placed\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>S. germanica<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    as sister to\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>S. byzantina<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    , with\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">\n                      <jats:italic>S. persica<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:styled-content>\n                    as their closest relative, a relationship that individual barcode loci failed to recover reliably. Taken together, this study provides a robust evolutionary framework for\n                    <jats:italic>Stachys<\/jats:italic>\n                    , identifies practical molecular tools for authenticating medicinal materials, and demonstrates the power of whole\u2010plastome sequencing to untangle taxonomically intricate plant groups.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/ece3.73618","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,4]],"date-time":"2026-05-04T00:21:42Z","timestamp":1777854102000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Chloroplast Phylogenomics and Barcode Discovery in Medicinal\n                    <i>Stachys<\/i>\n                    Species Reveal Evolutionary Relationships and Adaptive Signatures"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Fatemeh Sadat","family":"Ghotbi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture Isfahan University of Technology  Isfahan Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5917-6690","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aboozar","family":"Soorni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture Isfahan University of Technology  Isfahan Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12864-025-11729-0"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12864\u2010022\u201008850\u20109"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00344-025-11666-y"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty220"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1600\/036364417X696113"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu170"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp348"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s13059-016-1004-2"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00425-025-04875-y"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11738-020-03089-x"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0035071"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/srep08348"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_14_1","first-page":"14","article-title":"Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Stachys Sect. 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