Taq DNA polymerase. Temperature cycling was performed with an initial soak of 10 min at 95 _C, then 35 cycles of 95 _C for 60 s, 60 s at the specific annealing temperature, and 120 s at 72 _C, followed by an extension of 13 min at 72 _C. The amplicons were purified and then sequenced in an ABI Prism 3700. Resulting sequences of DNA Barcoding and authentication samples, as well as those extracted from GenBank were aligned using the software Geneious 5.1.7 (Biomatters Ltd.). The final aligned sequences were truncated in both extremes in order to produce sequences of equal length.