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Subramani Paranthaman Balasubramani1, Ramar Murugan, Kaliamoorthy Ravikumar, Padma Venkatasubramanian.
Abstract
Tribulus terrestris L. (Zygophyllaceae) is one of the highly traded raw drugs and also used as a stimulative food additive in Europe and USA. While, Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India recognizes T. terrestris as Goksura, Tribulus lanuginosus and T. subramanyamii are also traded by the same name raising issues of quality control. The nuclear ribosomal RNA genes and ITS (internal transcribed spacer) sequence were used to develop species-specific DNA markers. The species-specific markers efficiently amplified 295bp for T. terrestris (TT1F and TT1R), 300bp for T. lanuginosus (TL1F and TL1R) and 214bp for T. subramanyamii (TS1F and TS1R). These DNA markers can be used to distinguish T. terrestris from its adulterants. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 20083169 DOI： 10.1016/j.fitote.2010.01.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Fitoterapia ISSN： 0367-326X Impact factor: 2.882