The application discloses a method for identifying authenticity of
Cordyceps sinensis and products thereof based on fluorescent
duplex PCR, and relates to the technical field of
molecular identification of traditional Chinese medicinal materials. The method comprises the following steps: extracting total
nucleic acid from a sample to be tested; using a fungal specific primer pair and an
insect specific primer pair in the same PCR
reaction tube, performing
duplex PCR amplification by means of SYBR Green dye method, and collecting a fluorescent
signal, the fungal specific primer pair is targeted at an ITS sequence of
Cordyceps sinensis, and the
insect specific primer pair is targeted at a
COI gene sequence of host Thaumastia bennetti larvae; and determining results according to amplification curves and melting curves. The application provides a primer combination which can realize balanced and specific synchronous amplification of two target points at a universal annealing temperature of 60 DEG C, and breaks through the
bottleneck of compatibility of duplex
fluorescent PCR amplification caused by the conflict between the high
GC content of the fungal
ITS region and the low
GC content of the
insect COI region. The method is
closed tube operation throughout, does not need
gel electrophoresis and fluorescent probes, and has the advantages of high accuracy, convenient operation and low cost, and can be widely applied to authenticity identification of
Cordyceps sinensis and
deep processing products thereof.