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ArticleChinese medicine2011

Array-based techniques for fingerprinting medicinal herbs.

Linhai Niu, Nitin Mantri, Chun Guang Li, Charlie Xue, Edwin Pang

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Article in Chinese medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Linhai Niu *School of Applied Sciences, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
Nitin Mantri *School of Applied Sciences, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
Chun Guang LiDivision of Chinese Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
Charlie XueDivision of Chinese Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.
Edwin PangSchool of Applied Sciences, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.

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Abstract

Poor quality control of medicinal herbs has led to instances of toxicity, poisoning and even deaths. The fundamental step in quality control of herbal medicine is accurate identification of herbs. Array-based techniques have recently been adapted to authenticate or identify herbal plants. This article reviews the current array-based techniques, eg oligonucleotides microarrays, gene-based probe microarrays, Suppression Subtractive Hybridization (SSH)-based arrays, Diversity Array Technology (DArT) and Subtracted Diversity Array (SDA). We further compare these techniques according to important parameters such as markers, polymorphism rates, restriction enzymes and sample type. The applicability of the array-based methods for fingerprinting depends on the availability of genomics and genetics of the species to be fingerprinted. For the species with few genome sequence information but high polymorphism rates, SDA techniques are particularly recommended because they require less labour and lower material cost.

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