DNA Barcoding of Wild Plants with Potential Medicinal Properties from Faifa Mountains in Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT: Wild medicinal plants are the main source of active ingredients and provide a continuous natural source for many folk medicinal products, a role that is important for society's health with an impressive record of utilization. Thus, surveying, conserving, and precisely identifying wild medicinal plants is required. The current study aimed to precisely identify fourteen wild-sourced medicinal plants from southwest Saudi Arabia, within the Fifa mountains area located in Jazan province, using the DNA barcoding technique. Two DNA regions (nuclear ITS and chloroplast rbcL) were sequenced and analyzed for the collected species using BLAST-based and phylogeny-based identification methods. Based on our analysis, ten of the fourteen species were successfully identified by DNA barcoding, five were id

SUBMITTER: Safhi FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9957057 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature