Phylogenomics and barcoding of Panax: toward the identification of ginseng species.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The economic value of ginseng in the global medicinal plant trade is estimated to be in excess of US$2.1 billion. At the same time, the evolutionary placement of ginseng (Panax ginseng) and the complex evolutionary history of the genus is poorly understood despite several molecular phylogenetic studies. In this study, we use a full plastome phylogenomic framework to resolve relationships in Panax and to identify molecular markers for species discrimination.

Results

We used high-throughput sequencing of MBD2-Fc fractionated Panax DNA to supplement publicly available plastid genomes to create a phylogeny based on fully assembled and annotated plastid genomes from 60 accessions of 8 species. The plastome phylogeny based on a 163 kbp matrix resolves the sister relatio

SUBMITTER: Manzanilla V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5883351 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature