Identification of ginseng radix in Chinese medicine preparations by nested PCR-DNA sequencing method and nested PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism

Journal of Food and Drug Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-63

  Lu, Kang Tsu ^a   Lee, Hui Chun ^a   Liu, Fang Su ^a   Lo, Chi Fang ^a   Lin, Jer Huei ^a,b  

^a Ministry of Health and Welfare   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Ginseng radix; Internal transcribed spacer (ITS); Nested PCR; Panax ginseng; Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP)

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINESE MEDICINE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GINSENG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

PANAX; PANAX GINSENG; PANAX NOTOGINSENG;

EID: 77951813023     PISSN: 10219498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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