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DNA testing of garden ferns sold at plant nurseries in North Carolina, Texas, and California has found that plants marketed as American natives may actually be exotic species from other parts of the ...
Researchers have used publicly available data to develop a sequence library of the rbcL gene, a popular barcode in plants, for use in DNA metabarcoding studies. Using both the rbcL and an already ...
Reliable technique should improve clinical trials, nutrition studies and historical research DURHAM, N.C. – What people say they’ve eaten and what they’ve actually eaten are often two very different ...
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - Adam Schneider is an assistant professor of biology at UW-La Crosse. He’s teaching a plant taxonomy course to help students identify plants they may see in their daily lives.
Other conference attendees have told me that the plant barcoding community is mired in politics, with certain investigators positing that their own gene region complexes (and no one else's) must be ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A PANEL of scientists has agreed to a barcode standard for plant DNA that will allow the precise identification of most of the planet’s ...
Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 360, No. 1462, DNA Barcoding of Life (Oct. 29, 2005), pp. 1889-1895 (7 pages) Land plants have had the reputation of being problematic for DNA ...
Believe it or not, the illegal trade of endangered plant species is a big business. The illicit trade of animals is more well known than plants in part because the trade is easier to track. That’s one ...
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The ability to identify individual plant species from tiny amounts of material has a surprising range of uses, from monitoring bee populations to assessing the contents of food and nutritional ...
DURHAM, N.C. – What people say they’ve eaten and what they’ve actually eaten are often two very different lists of foods. But a new technique using DNA barcoding to identify the plant matter in human ...