Has there been a successful plant DNA barcode?
Has there been a successful plant DNA barcode?
Barcoding has been tried in animals with the CO1 protein…what about plants? I know CO1 is not likely…
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I don’t think there is a perfect candidate at the moment. There is one mentioned here: phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/docs/03_Sept_View_Stoeckle.pdf, but I have another paper that discusses this in more detail which I will add here when I find it.
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1. myrtguy | April 6th, 2007 at 9:11 am
dr d has given you the best reference. co1 [aka cox1] is a mitochondrial gene that has worked well for many animal groups but sequence of mitochondrial DNA has not been particularly useful in plants. The Kress et al. paper suggests a couple of chloroplast DNA regions but they are largely untested in real situations. Others are considering the nuclear ribosomal DNA repeat unit ITS but that also has its problems (including non-functional copies).
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