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Selection of DNA barcoding loci and phylogenetic study of a medicinal and endemic plant, Plectranthus asirensis J.R.I. Wood from Saudi Arabia.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 7 Aug 2014
Al-Qurainy F, Khan S, Nadeem M, Tarroum M, Al-Ameri A
Abstract excerpt
Genuine medicinal plant materials are very important for potential crude drug production, which can be used to cure many human diseases. DNA barcoding of medicinal plants is an effective way to identify adulterated or contaminated market materials, but it can be quite challenging to generate barcodes and analyze the data to determine discrimination power. The molecular phylogeny of a plant species infers its...
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