“…There are 17 potential barcode regions ( matK, rbcL, ITS, ITS2, psbA-trnH, atpF-atpH, ycf5, psbKI, psbM-trnD, coxI, nad1, trnL-F, rpoB, rpoC1, atpF-atpH , and rps16 ) for plants, having different degrees of universality, specificity, and taxa resolution power that extensively used in the authentication and identification of medicinal plants ( Parveen et al., 2016 ; Kress, 2017 ). However, DNA barcoding ( Vassou et al., 2016 ) and species-specific assays ( Sharma and Shrivastava, 2016 ; Travadi et al., 2022a ; Travadi et al., 2022b ) cannot resolve presence of multiple plant species in a single sample ( Mishra et al., 2016 ), that limitation could be overcome by DNA metabarcoding.…”