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 ...

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 ...

The dry, mothball-scented stacks of a herbarium might seem to be far away from the cutting edge of plant science. However, the curated plant specimens stored there contain irreplaceable genetic, ...

TORONTO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Call it a DNA digital Dewey Decimal System for all life on Earth. Sign up here. Every species, from extinct to thriving, is set to get its own DNA barcode in an attempt to ...

Amid spiralling interest from health officials, government agencies and others beginning to realize potential applications of DNA barcoding, experts from 46 nations converge in Taipei Sept. 18-20.

DNA barcoding is a movement to catalog all life on earth by a simple standardized genetic tag, similar to stores labeling products with unique barcodes. The effort promises foolproof food inspection, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Among the applications of DNA barcoding for plant conservation is the identification of illegally traded endangered species from small samples ...

The Newsom administration is proposing to create a reference library for California insects based on DNA barcodes. The CDFA program would tag new and existing specimens from the Central Valley and ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 42, No. 12 (December 2015), pp. 2363-2373 (11 pages) Aim: More than 90 marine fish species in the Mediterranean have been determined to be alien species of Red Sea origin ...