“…For the past 17 years, DNA barcoding has drawn great attention as a powerful species identification tool. DNA barcoding is an emerging technology for reliable and concise species identification in the food and dietary supplement industry to determine the authenticity of mushrooms, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal dietary supplements, tea, meat, yak jerky, and aquatic products such as fish, crustaceans, and mollusks (Stoeckle et al, 2011;Little and Jeanson, 2013;Shen et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2016;Raja et al, 2017;Yacoub and Sadek, 2017;Hou et al, 2018). DNA barcoding authentication has considerable merits, one of which is that recognition requires only a tiny piece of tissue, is not affected by damaged and incomplete tissue, such as in powdered mycelium samples (Raja et al, 2017), and does not have growth stage limitations.…”