Abstract:It is important to use superior cultivars for the breeding and extension of alfalfa to cultivate grassland for hay and for modifying environment. The RAPD reaction system for verifying alfalfa cultivars was applied to optimize by gradient quantity of the annealing temperature, template DNA, Taq polymerase, Mg2+,dNTP, and the primer in the Zhongmu No.1 alfalfa. The results show that when the annealing temperature reached 37℃ and the volume of the RAPD reaction system was 25 μl, the optimal amount of template DNA would be 80 ng; of Taq polymerase, 1.5 U; of Mg2+, 6.25×10-5mmol; of dNTP, 0.3×10-5mmol; of primer, 0.4×10-5mmol; and of buffer KCl, 1.25×10-3mmol. The electrophoretic patterns of amplifying in the optimized reaction system were similar in the 3 different types of PCR amplifiers.