Open AccessMolecular authentication of Euphorbia schimperiana Scheele using internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA
Author(s) -
Mesfer M. Alqahtani,
M. Ajmal Ali,
M. Oliur Rahman,
Fahad M Al Hemaid,
Sidanand V. Kambhar,
Dong Kun Lee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bangladesh journal of plant taxonomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2224-7297
pISSN - 1028-2092
DOI - 10.3329/bjpt.v28i1.54212
Subject(s) - biology , internal transcribed spacer , ribosomal dna , taxon , dna barcoding , phylogenetic tree , molecular phylogenetics , nuclear dna , phylogenetics , subgenus , evolutionary biology , ribosomal rna , botany , genetics , taxonomy (biology) , mitochondrial dna , gene
The Internal Transcribed Spacers (ITS) sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) are commonly used in plant molecular phylogenetics for the molecular based taxonomic identification and DNA barcoding because of shorter length and easy to amplify by using the universal primers, and further has discrimination ability to distinguish the taxon at lower taxonomic level. The present molecular phylogenetic analysis of ITS nrDNA sequences focuses to determine the taxonomic status of an unresolved medicinally important species Euphorbia schimperiana Scheele of the family Euphorbiaceae reported from Saudi Arabia. The combined length of the entire ITS region in E. schimperiana is 644 nucleotides. The study reveals that E. schimperiana shows a close proximity with the members of the subgenus Esula.
Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 28(1): 125-130, 2021 (June)