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Authentication of Medicinal Herbs using PCR-Amplified ITS2 with Specific Primers
1 Oct 2007
Abstract excerpt
Different parts of medicinal herbs have long been used as traditional Chinese drugs for treating many diseases, whereas materials of similar morphology and chemical fingerprints are often misidentified. Analyses of sequence variations in the nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) internal transcribed spacer (ITS) have become a valid method for authentication of medicinal herbs at the intergenic and interspecific levels....
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