Identification of Fritillariae bulbus from adulterants using ITS2 regions

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• 作者：Li Xiang^a ; Yanyan Su^b ; Xiwen Li^a ; Gang Xue^c ; Qiang Wang^c ; Julian Shi^c ; Lizhi Wang^d ; ; Shilin Chen^a ;
• 关键词：Fritillaria ; ITS2 sequence ; Adulterant ; DNA barcoding
• 刊名：Plant Gene
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：7
• 期：Complete
• 页码：42-49
• 全文大小：1258 K

文摘

Distinguishing the five types of Fritillariae bulbus (Fritillariae cirrhosae bulbus, Fritillariae ussuriensis bulbus, Fritillariae pallidiflorae bulbus, Fritillariae thunbergii bulbus and Fritillariae hupehensis bulbus) is difficult because of their similar morphological, physical, and chemical characteristics. These species, which are included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, exhibit different therapeutic effects. Therefore, we used internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) regions as DNA barcode to distinguish the five types of Fritillariae bulbus from each other and their adulterants. A total of 151 samples belonging to five types of Fritillariae bulbus (a total of 11 species of Fritillaria) and two adulterant species were collected. The phylogeny was constructed using the neighbor joining (NJ), maximum parsimony (MP), and maximum likelihood (ML) methods. Genomic DNAs were successfully extracted from all bulbus samples and obtaining high-quality ITS2 sequences via polymerase chain reaction optimization. The length of the ITS2 sequence of 12 Fritillaria species ranged from 235 bp to 241 bp, and the average GC contents were over 68%. Adulterants Bolbostemma paniculatum and Fritillaria maximowiczii could be distinguished from all Fritillariae bulbus species by using the distance and tree methods. The ML tree showed better topology than the NJ and MP trees. Members of each type of Fritillariae bulbus formed one clade, which was strongly supported with bootstrap values, except for Fritillariae thunbergii bulbus and Fritillariae hupehensis bulbus in the ML tree. Therefore, DNA barcoding technology based on ITS2 regions can be used to distinguish the five types of Fritillariae bulbus from each other and their adulterants except for Fritillariae thunbergii bulbus and Fritillariae hupehensis bulbus.