Project:

Genuine or Fake? A DNA Barcoding Study to Identify Ginseng Species in Traditional Chinese Medicine Market

Students:

Ningbing Xue, Lanxin Lei, Yifan Chen, Junhan Zhang

School:

Ulink College of Shanghai;Wuxi Big Bridge Academy, Suzhou, China

Mentors:

Xinyue Wang

Abstract:

Recent studies have shown that counterfeit drugs are frequently found in the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) market. It is especially difficult for taxonomists to distinguish between ginseng species due to their similar morphological characteristics. Some scientific papers inspired us to use DNA barcoding with both rbcL and ITS2 primers to identify the ginseng species we bought in different pharmacies, and we found that none of the samples were mislabelled.

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