Research and Application of DNA Barcoding Technology in Traditional Chinese Medicine
DNA barcoding technology is an effective and practical molecular identification method,which effectively makes up for the shortcomings of traditional identification methods in the identification of traditional Chinese medicine,and combines with chromatography,metabonomics,etc.to scientifically judge the authenticity and quality of traditional Chinese medicine.The application status of DNA barcoding in Chinese medicinal materials,Chinese herbal pieces and traditional Chinese patent medicines and simple preparations are summarized the advantages and disadvantages of DNA barcoding and its related technologies are analyzed and the combination of DNA barcoding and other methods are discussed in order to provide ideas for the identification and quality evaluation of Chinese medicine.
DNA barcodingmolecular identificationtraditional Chinese medicineChinese herbal piecestraditional Chinese patent medicines