Assessing the reliability of medicinal Dendrobium sequences in GenBank for botanical species identification

Abstract DNA-based method is a promising tool in species identification and is widely used in various fields. DNA barcoding method has already been included in different pharmacopoeias for identification of medicinal materials or botanicals. Accuracy and validity of DNA-based methods rely on the acc...

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Main Authors: Hoi-Yan Wu, Kwun-Tin Chan, Grace Wing-Chiu But, Pang-Chui Shaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82385-z