Medicinal plants recommended by the world health organization: DNA barcode identification associated with chemical analyses guarantees their quality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Palhares, Rafael Melo ^a,b,c   Drummond, Marcela Gonçalves ^b   Dos Santos Alves Figueiredo Brasil, Bruno ^d   Cosenza, Gustavo Pereira ^a   Das Graças Lins Brandão, Maria ^a   Oliveira, Guilherme ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Myleus Biotechnology Research Team   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d EMBRAPA Agroenergia ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; MOLECULAR MARKER; PLANT DNA; PROTEIN MATK; PROTEIN RBCL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONSUMER; DNA BARCODING; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWER; GINSENG; HAMAMELIS; HERB; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRICARIA RECUTITA; MAYTENUS ILICIFOLIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIKANIA GLOMERATA; NONHUMAN; PASSIFLORA INCARNATA; PEUMUS BOLDUS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VALERIANA OFFICINALIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

BRAZIL; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; HUMANS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84929378687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127866     Document Type: Article

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