Ha Wai-Yan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-180). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Abbreviations --- p.vi / Table of Contents --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- General Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- "Hstory, cultivation and trade" --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Botany --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Chemical Constituents and Pharmacological effects --- p.8 / Chapter 1.4 --- Authentication of Chinese herbal materials --- p.13 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Morphological marker --- p.15 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Histological marker --- p.18 / Chapter 1.4.3 --- Chemical marker --- p.20 / Chapter 1.4.4 --- Molecular markers --- p.24 / Chapter 1.4.4.1 --- Protein marker --- p.24 / Chapter 1.4.4.2 --- DNA-based markers --- p.26 / Chapter 1.4.4.2.1 --- PCR-based markers --- p.27 / Chapter 1.4.4.2.1.1 --- Random-primed PCR --- p.28 / Chapter 1.4.4.2.1.2 --- Simple Sequence Repeats (SSR) --- p.30 / Chapter 1.4.4.2.1.3 --- Polymerase Chain Reaction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) --- p.31 / Chapter 1.4.4.2.2 --- Hybridization-based markers --- p.33 / Chapter 1.4.4.2.3 --- Sequencing-based markers --- p.35 / Chapter 1.5 --- Objectives and Strategies of the studies --- p.39 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- General Materials and Methods --- p.40 / Chapter 2.1 --- Reagents and Buffers --- p.41 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Media for bacterial culture --- p.41 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Reagents for preparation of competent cells --- p.42 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Reagents for plasmid DNA preparation --- p.42 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Reagents for agarose gel electrophoresis --- p.43 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- Reagents for polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis --- p.43 / Chapter 2.1.6 --- Reagents for Southern hybridization --- p.44 / Chapter 2.2 --- Agarose Gel electrophoresis of DNA --- p.46 / Chapter 2.3 --- Purification of PCR products --- p.46 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- From agarose gel using Geneclean® II kit --- p.46 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Using Microspin´ёØ Column --- p.47 / Chapter 2.4 --- End modification of PCR amplified DNA --- p.47 / Chapter 2.5 --- Preparation of Escherichia coli Competent Cells --- p.48 / Chapter 2.6 --- "Ligation and Transformation of E, coli" --- p.49 / Chapter 2.7 --- Plasmid Preparation --- p.50 / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Minipreparation of plasmid DNA --- p.50 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Preparation of plasmid DNA using Wizard® Plus SV Minipreps DNA Purification Kit (Promega) --- p.50 / Chapter 2.8 --- Screening for the Presence of insert in plasmid --- p.51 / Chapter 2.8.1 --- Rapid alkaline lysis --- p.51 / Chapter 2.8.2 --- PCR screening --- p.52 / Chapter 2.8.3 --- Restriction digestion of plasmid DNA --- p.53 / Chapter 2.9 --- DNA sequencing --- p.53 / Chapter 2.9.1 --- Plasmid sequencing using T7 Sequencing Kit --- p.53 / Chapter 2.9.2 --- Cycle Sequencing from PCR products or plasmid --- p.54 / Chapter 2.10 --- DNA Sequencing electrophoresis --- p.55 / Chapter 2.10.1 --- Preparation of 6 % polyacrylamide gel solution --- p.55 / Chapter 2.10.2 --- Gel casting --- p.55 / Chapter 2.10.3 --- Electrophoresis of Sequencing Gel --- p.56 / Chapter 2.10.4 --- Autoradiography --- p.57 / Chapter 2.11 --- DNA elution from dried sequencing gel --- p.57 / Chapter 2.12 --- Southern blot analysis --- p.58 / Chapter 2.12.1 --- Restriction digestion of genomic DNA --- p.58 / Chapter 2.12.2 --- Purification of digested DNA and agarose gel electrophoresis --- p.58 / Chapter 2.12.3 --- Capillary transfer of DNA to a Hybond´ёØ N+ nylon membrane --- p.59 / Chapter 2.12.4 --- DNA radiolabeling by nick translation --- p.60 / Chapter 2.12.5 --- Purificaiton of radiolabeled probe by NICK® Spin Column --- p.60 / Chapter 2.12.6 --- Hybridization of DNA --- p.61 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Plant DNA extraction --- p.62 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.63 / Chapter 3.2 --- Reagents and buffer for total DNA extraction --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3 --- Extraction methods --- p.70 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Sample preparation --- p.70 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- CTAB extraction method --- p.70 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Potassium acetate/ SDS extraction method --- p.71 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- GIBRO Plant DNAzol® reagent for genomic DNA isolation --- p.72 / Chapter 3.4 --- Qualitative and quantitative analysis of DNA --- p.74 / Chapter 3.5 --- Results --- p.75 / Chapter 3.6 --- Discussion --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of P. ginseng and P. quinquefolius --- p.81 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.82 / Chapter 4.2 --- Materials and methods --- p.88 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Plant materials --- p.88 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Choice of Primers and radiolabeling --- p.89 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- AFLP assay --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Electrophoresis of AFLP fingerprint --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Similarity Index (S.I.) analysis of AFLP profile --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2.6 --- Re-amplification of polymorphic DNA fragments isolated from dried sequencing gel --- p.92 / Chapter 4.2.7 --- Cloning and Sequencing of the AFLP fragments --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.8 --- Conversion of AFLP marker into Directed Amplification of Minisatellite-region DNA polymorphism (DAMD) marker --- p.93 / Chapter 4.3 --- Results --- p.95 / Chapter 4.4 --- Discussion --- p.102 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Direct Amplification of Length Polymorphisms (DALP) analysis of P. ginseng and P. quinquefolius --- p.107 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.108 / Chapter 5.2 --- Materials and methods --- p.112 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Plant materials --- p.112 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Choice of Primers --- p.113 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Alternative labelled Amplification reaction --- p.114 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Electrophoresis of the multi-locus amplification products --- p.114 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Isolation and Re-amplification of polymorphic DALP fragments from dried sequencing gel --- p.115 / Chapter 5.2.6 --- Cloning and Sequencing --- p.115 / Chapter 5.2.7 --- Conversion of DALP marker to Sequence Tagged Site (STS) marker --- p.116 / Chapter 5.3 --- Results --- p.117 / Chapter 5.4 --- Discussion --- p.135 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR): the sequel of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) --- p.137 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.138 / Chapter 6.2 --- Materials and methods --- p.140 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Plant materials --- p.140 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- PCR reaction --- p.141 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Cloning and sequencing --- p.143 / Chapter 6.3 --- Results --- p.144 / Chapter 6.4 --- Discussion --- p.157 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Outlook --- p.159 / Chapter 7.1 --- Molecular authentication of Chinese medicinal materials --- p.160 / Chapter 7.2 --- Development of molecular markers for Ginseng --- p.161 / Appendix I --- p.164 / Appendix II --- p.165 / References --- p.166
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322634 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Contributors | Ha, Wai-Yan., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Biochemistry. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, x, 180 leaves : ill. (some col. some mounted) ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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