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A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants

  • Mark W. Chase
  • , Robyn S. Cowan
  • , Peter M. Hollingsworth
  • , Cassio Van Den Berg
  • , Santiago Madriñán
  • , Gitte Petersen
  • , Ole Seberg
  • , Tina Jørgsensen
  • , Kenneth M. Cameron
  • , Mark Carine
  • , Niklas Pedersen
  • , Terry A.J. Hedderson
  • , Ferozah Conrad
  • , Gerardo A. Salazar
  • , James E. Richardson
  • , Michelle L. Hollingsworth
  • , Timothy G. Barraclough
  • , Laura Kelly
  • , Mike Wilkinson
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
  • Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
  • Universidad de los Andes Colombia
  • University of Copenhagen
  • New York Botanical Garden
  • The Natural History Museum, London
  • University of Cape Town
  • Kirstenbosch Research Centre
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Aberystwyth University

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Abstract

We propose in this paper to use three regions of plastid DNA as a standard protocol for barcoding all land plants. We review the other markers that have been proposed and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The low levels of variation in plastid DNA make three regions necessary; there are no plastid regions, coding or non-coding, that evolve as rapidly as mitochondrial DNA generally does in animals. We outline two, three-region options, (1) rpoC1, rpoB and matK or (2) rpoC1, matK andpsbA-trnH as viable markers for land plant barcoding.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)295-299
Number of pages5
JournalTaxon
Volume56
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • ITS nrDNA
  • Land plant barcoding
  • matK
  • Mitochondrial DNA
  • Plastid DNA
  • psbA-trnH
  • rbcL
  • rpoB
  • rpoCl
  • trnL

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