• The Microorganisms and Industry
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.10-13
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• 1987

L-Azetidine-2-carboxylic acid(A-2-C) is a four-membered cyclic imino acid which was first discovered from Convalaria majalis and Polygonatum officinalis in 1955(1,2). The imino acid A-2-C has been identified in at least 16 species of plants (3) (mostly the families Liliaceae, Agavaceae and Amaryllidaceae); in two marine sponges (Haliclona sp. and Chalinospilla sp.) (4); in the red algae (Lophocladia lamenandi) (5); in the sugar beet Beta vulgaris (6) ; and the microorganism Actinoplanes ferrugineus (7).

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.4204-4206
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• 2012

• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2008

Anemarrhena asphodeloides (Korean name "Ji-Mo") has been used for oriental medicinal purposes in Korea, China and Japan. In this study, 29 A. asphodeloides samples were collected including 3 certified A. asphodeloides plants and many commercially marketed A. asphodeloides products. Chloroplast trnL-F regions of the "Ji-Mo" samples were sequenced and used to identify whether the samples were genuine A. asphodeloides or not. As the result, the trnL-F sequences of all the "Ji-Mo" samples were shown to be identical and it was proven that commercially available medicinal products "Ji-Mo" are genuine A. asphodeloides. Phylogenetic tree of. A. asphodeloides using the trnL-F sequences was constructed and compared with phylogenetic tree using rubisco large subunit (rbcL) gene sequences. In these tree, A. asphodeloides was affiliated in the family Agavaceae in the order Asparagales. It is proven that trnL-F phylogenetic tree is useful to study taxonomic position of A. asphodeloides.