Morphological and Molecular Identification of the Common Weeds Alternanthera sessilis and Commelina benghalensis using rbcL Gene-based Molecular Method

Some plants that are documented as weeds in the literature have a high number of medicinal applications. Alternanthera sessilis and Commenlina benghalensis are herbaceous, weeds that are known for their medicinal applications in traditional medicine as well as in the modern pharmaceutical applications. In the present study, the selected plant species were collected from Chikhli tehsil, Buldhana district, Maharashtra. The collected healthy plant samples were utilized for the morphological identification of the plant species using the available literature sources. The molecular identification of the plant species was performed by DNA barcoding using the chloroplast rbcL gene. The observations noted during the study showed 99% similarity through BLAST analysis. We submitted these sequences to NCBI and received accession numbers for Alternanthera sessilis PX883717 and Commelina benghalensis PX892998.

M. D. Kolte*1, V. U. Pochhi2 and D. L. Gavande3 Click here to download file

Research Article | Published online : 05-Feb-2026