Authentication of Chinese Medicinal Materials by DNA Technology

Contents: Molecular Markers in Chinese Medicinal Materials (P-C Shaw et al.) Methodology and Equipment for General Molecular Techniques (F C-F Yau & F-N Ngan) Authentication of Chinese Medicinal Materials by Polymerase Chain Reaction Using Arbitrarily Chosen Primers (H Cao et al.) Authentication of the Components from a Mixture of Herbal Materials (K-T Cheng) Authentication of Chinese Medicinal Materials by Sequence Characterised Amplified Region (J Wang et al.) Differentiation of Panax ginseng from P quinqueflius by Direct Amplification of Length Polymorphisms (W-Y Ha et al.) Differentiation of Panax ginseng from P quinquefolius by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (W-Y Ha et al.) Authentication of Animal Medicinal Materials by DNA Molecular Markers (Y-Q Wang & K-Y Zhou) Authentication of Medicinal Dendrobium Species by the Internal Transcribed Spacer of Ribosomal DNA (D T-W Lau et al.) Authentication by DNA Sequencing of 5s rRNA and trnK Genes (H Mizukami) Authentication Based on 18S Ribosomal RNA Gene and matK Gene Sequences (K Komatsu) Outlook (P-C Shaw et al.).