Abstract:In Japanese diet, the pungent condiments are mainly made from Eutrema wasabi , Armoracia rusticana and mustard, which are in the Brassicaceae family . Eutrema wasabi , Armoracia rusticana and mustard were quickly and accurately identified in the study by the internal transcribed spacer 2(ITS2) technology, providing a reference for the technology used in the quality control of pungent products. In this study, three plant materials, i.e., Eutrema wasabi, Armoracia rusticana and white mustard, were used as the experimental materials to extract the genomic DNA, and the ITS2 sequence was obtained by PCR amplification using the universal primer ITS2_S2. After sequencing, bioinformatics analysis was performed for species identification. MEGA7.0 (Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis 7.0) analysis of ITS2 sequence showed that the K2P genetic distance (Kimura 2-parameter) of Eutrema wasabi , white mustard and horseradish was between 0.088 and 0.171, which were all higher than 0.01, and there were 36 interspecies variation sites, preliminarily inferring that ITS2 sequence could be used to distinguish the three species of Eutrema wasabi , mustard and horseradish. In addition, ITS2 sequences of Eutrema wasabi and its close relatives, such as Eutrema edwardsii, Armoracia rusticana and mustard, were obtained from GenBank. MEGA7.0 was used to analyze the interspecies sequence, calculate K2P and build evolutionary tree by Neighbor-joining (NJ). Eutrema wasabi and Eutrema edwardsii were gathered into a large branch. In the meantime, brown mustard, white mustard, and black mustard were gathered into a large branch. And Armoracia rusticana was alone as a branch. ITS2 sequence analysis of Eutrema wasabi and its close relatives, such as Eutrema edwardsii, Armoracia rusticana and mustard, showed that the genetic distance of K2P between species was between 0.030 and 0.105, which were all higher than 0.01. This study showed that ITS2 technology could be used to identify the relative species such as Eutrema wasabi, Armoracia rusticana and mustard. This technology can be used to identify and quantify the specific raw material ingredients of pungent condiments, providing a scientific basis for food quality control and food safety.