Adulteration Detection of Polygonati Rhizoma Based on Real-time Fluorescence Quantitative PCR Technology with LNA-TaqMan Probe
Objective:A rapid,sensitive,and efficient real-time polymerase chain reaction(PCR)approach was developed in this work in order to detect the adulteration of Polygonatum zanlanscianense Pamp with Polygonati Rhizoma.Methods:Based on Locked Nucleic Acid(LNA)-TaqMan probe real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR technology,the sequence differences of the trnC-petN gene of chloroplast DNA from various original samples of Polygonati Rhizoma was employed in this study to designe and screen specific primers and probes of specific differential sites for common adulterants.The specificity of the primers and LNA-TaqMan probes(Locked nucleic acid probes)were validated.The adulteration ratio of P.zanlanscianense with Polygonati Rhizoma was calculated according to the difference in Ct values of the amplification curve.Results:The results indicated that the real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR technology with LNA-TaqMan probe detection method can specifically detect the adulteration of P.zanlanscianense with Polygonati Rhizoma and determine the adulteration ratio.Stable detection was achieved even at 1%adulteration level.Conclusion:The method is simple,accurate,reproducible and stable,and can be used for the quantitative detection of Polygonati Rhizoma adulterated with P.zanlanscianense.