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

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 3439 - 9
• Main Authors: Wu, Hoi-Yan, Chan, Kwun-Tin, But, Grace Wing-Chiu, Shaw, Pang-Chui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 09.02.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/1647; 631/1647/1513; Chloroplasts; Databases, Nucleic Acid; Dendrobium; Dendrobium - classification; Dendrobium - genetics; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic; DNA, Plant - genetics; Genomes; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Nucleotide sequence; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sequence Analysis, DNA; Species; Taxonomy

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 accuracy and...