DNA 'Barcode' For Tropical Trees
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 11:07
in Biology & Nature
In foods, soil samples or customs checks, plant fragments sometimes need to be quickly identified. The use of DNA "barcodes" to itemize plant biodiversity was proposed during the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Summit. Researchers have now tested this method in the tropical forest.
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