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Deoxyribonucleic Acid Barcoding for the Identification of Botanicals

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Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 122

Part of the book series: Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products ((POGRCHEM,volume 122))

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Abstract

The Natural Herbal Products industry uses botanicals or herbs as raw materials for production of herbal products or dietary supplements. Recently, the demand for natural herbal products has increased tremendously and this has led to adulteration and to counterfeit herbal products. The present chapter deals with currently used molecular methods from “simple” single genomic regions to high-throughput whole genome or transcriptome sequencing methods used in the identification of botanicals.

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  1. School of Pharmacy, National Center for Natural Product Research, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848, USA

    Natascha Techen, Iffat Parveen & Ikhlas A. Khan

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  1. College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    A. Douglas Kinghorn

  2. Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Linz, Austria

    Heinz Falk

  3. Centre for Natural Products Discovery, Liverpool John Moores University, Birmingham, UK

    Simon Gibbons

  4. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima, Japan

    Yoshinori Asakawa

  5. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationaliti, Wuhan, China

    Ji-Kai Liu

  6. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Wien, Austria

    Verena M. Dirsch

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Techen, N., Parveen, I., Khan, I.A. (2023). Deoxyribonucleic Acid Barcoding for the Identification of Botanicals. In: Kinghorn, A.D., Falk, H., Gibbons, S., Asakawa, Y., Liu, JK., Dirsch, V.M. (eds) Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products 122. Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, vol 122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26768-0_4

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