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DNA barcoding is expected to be one of the most promising tools in biological taxonomy. However, there have been no agreements on which core barcode should be used in plants, especially in species-rich genera with wide geographical distributions. To evaluate their discriminatory power in large genera, four of the most widely used DNA barcodes, including three plastid regions ( matK ,  rbcL ,  trnH-psbA ) and nuclear internal transcribed spacer (nrITS), were tested in seven species-rich genera ( Ficus ,  Pedicularis ,  Rhodiola ,  Rhododendron , Viburnum ,  Dendrobium  and  Lysimachia ) and a moderate size genus,  Codonopsis . All of the sequences from the aforementioned seven large genera were downloaded from NCBI. The related barcodes for  Codonopsis  were newly generated in this study. Genetics distances, DNA barcoding gaps and phylogenetic trees of the four single barcodes and their combinations were calculated and compared in the seven genera. As for single barcode, nrITS has the most variable sites, the clearest intra- and inter-specific divergences and the highest discrimination rates in the seven genera. Among the combinations of barcodes, ITS+ matK  performed better than all the single barcodes in most cases and even the three- and four-loci combinations in the seven genera. Therefore, we recommend ITS+ matK  as the core barcodes for large plant genera.

Evaluation of DNA barcodes in Codonopsis (Campanulaceae) and in some large angiosperm plant genera