RESEARCH ARTICLE Evaluation of DNA barcodes in Codonopsis (Campanulaceae) and in some large angiosperm plant genera De-Yi Wang1,2☯, Qiang Wang1☯, Ying-Li Wang3☯, Xiao-Guo Xiang1, Lu-Qi Huang4*, Xiao- Hua Jin1,5* 1 State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3 Baotou Medical College, Donghe District, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, China, 4 National Resource Centre for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Science, Beijing, China, 5 Southeast Asia Biodiversity a1111111111 Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS-SEABRI), Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, China a1111111111 ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. a1111111111 *
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[email protected] (LQH) a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract DNA barcoding is expected to be one of the most promising tools in biological taxonomy. OPEN ACCESS However, there have been no agreements on which core barcode should be used in plants, Citation: Wang D-Y, Wang Q, Wang Y-L, Xiang X- especially in species-rich genera with wide geographical distributions. To evaluate their dis- G, Huang L-Q, Jin X-H (2017) Evaluation of DNA criminatory power in large genera, four of the most widely used DNA barcodes, including barcodes in Codonopsis (Campanulaceae) and in three plastid regions (matK, rbcL, trnH-psbA) and nuclear internal transcribed spacer some large angiosperm plant genera. PLoS ONE (nrITS), were tested in seven species-rich genera (Ficus, Pedicularis, Rhodiola, Rhododen- 12(2): e0170286. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0170286 dron,Viburnum, Dendrobium and Lysimachia) and a moderate size genus, Codonopsis.