Abstract
This study describes the identification of Panax species using mitochondrial consensus primers. Initially, a of thirty primers were tested in ten Korean ginseng cultivars and two foreign Panax species, P. quinquefolius and P. notogin-seng. In the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification results, three primers (coxl, nadl/2-3 and nad2/l-2) generated co-dominant polymorphic handing patterns discriminating Korean ginseng cultivars from P. quinquefolius and P. notogin-seng. However these primers could not generated polymorphisms among the Korean ginseng cultivars, and simply represented species-specific polymorphisms for P. quinquefolius and P. notoginseng. Primers PQ9I and PN418 were designed from the consensus sequence of nad1/2-3 region. Two banding patterns (A or B) were detected in PQ9I. Korean ginseng and P. notoginseng shared the same banding pattern (A type) and P. quinquefolius was identified another banding (B type). In the case of PI
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