Evaluation of Medicinal Categorization of Atractylodes japonica Koidz. by Using Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequencing Analysis and HPLC Fingerprinting Combined with Statistical Tools

Figure 1

Multiple alignments of ITS nucleotide sequence among the sample listed in Table 1. The dots indicate the consensus nucleotide, and the dashes represent the gaps. AB219405.1 accession numbers of NCBI GenBank for the nucleotide sequences of the ITS for Atractylodes japonica; AB219409.1 and AB210407.1 accession numbers of NCBI GenBank for the nucleotide sequences of the ITS for A. koreana and A. lancea, respectively; AB219406.1 accession number of NCBI GenBank for the nucleotide sequence of ITS for A. macrocephala; and AB219408.1 accession number of NCBI GenBank for the nucleotide sequence of ITS for A. chinensis. The samples with Arabic number were dried-voucher specimens deposited in the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine.