DNA barcoding of recently diverging legume genera:Assessing the temperate Asian Caragana(Fabaceae:Papilionoideae)  

作　　者：Shabir A.Rather Josphat K.Saina Arjun Adit Hong-Mei Liu Zhao-Yang Chang Harald Schneider 

机构地区：[1]Center for Integrative Conservation&Yunnan Key Laboratory for Conservation of Tropical Rainforests and Asian Elephants,Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Mengla,Menglun 666303,Yunnan,China [2]Centre for Functional Biodiversity,School of Life Sciences,University of KwaZulu-Natal,Pietermaritzburg 3209,South Africa [3]College of Life Sciences,Northwest A&F University,Yangling 712100,Shaanxi,China

出　　处：《Journal of Systematics and Evolution》2024年第3期534-547,共14页植物分类学报（英文版）

基　　金：support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Yunnan Postdoctoral Research Project funded by the Yunnan Science and Technology Department awarded to SAR (Grant Nos.32250410305 and Y8BSH11008,respectively);the Science and Technology Basic Work (Gran No.2013FY112100).

摘　　要：Obtaining reliable species identification of the legume genus Caragana has been challenging.Until now,species identification was mostly carried out utilizing diagnostic morphological characteristics,in addition to some successful applications of secondary chemical compounds.This study was designed to establish a DNA barcoding protocol enabling unambiguous identification of 238 accessions belonging to 67 species of Caragana.The performance of four DNA barcoding regions nrITS,trnH-psbA,matK,and rbcL was explored using three analytical approaches,Pairwise Genetic Distance,Sequence Similarity and Phylogenetic Tree method.The chloroplast regions rbcL and matK showed lower discriminatory power compared with the nuclear region internal transcribed spacer(ITS)and the chloroplast region trnH-psbA.The nrITS outperformed the other regions in the resolution rate.The present study brings forth an efficient barcode locus for Caragana.A barcode based either on a single-locus nrITS or the combination of nrITS and trnH-psbA was found to be most suitable for species discrimination with distinctive barcoding gaps.An attempt has also been made to resolve taxonomic issues in the Caragana opulens complex.DNA barcoding tools when complemented with alpha taxonomic evidence can aid in solving complex systematic problems,especially when taxa are characterized by overlapping traits,such as species belonging to the Fabaceae family.

关 键 词：ITS molecular taxonomy species complex species discrimination SYSTEMATICS TRNH-PSBA 

分 类 号：Q94[生物学—植物学]