Application of molecular identification techniques in Chinese materia medica / 中草药

ABSTRACT

The burgeoning molecular identification techniques in recent years have been analyzed and summarized in this paper, such as RAPD, ISSR, RFLP, AFLP, SNP, and DNA barcode sequence analysis techniques. The application of the molecular identification techniques has been summarized in the following five aspects the identification on the authenticity (true or false), genuine products and substitute, multi base source and genetic diversity, producing area, and growing year discrimination of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, We put forward some technical problems in the molecular identification to be solved and expect the development and prospects in the future.