A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants

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Authors

Mark W. Chase

Robyn S. Cowan

Peter M. Hollingsworth

Cássio van den Berg · Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

Santiago Madriñán · Universidad de Los Andes

Gitte Petersen · Natural History Museum of Denmark

Ole Seberg · Natural History Museum Aarhus

Tina Jørgsensen · Natural History Museum of Denmark

Abstract

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 1matK or (2) rpoC1, matK and psbA‐trnH as viable markers for land plant barcoding.

Topics & Keywords

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Genetic diversity and population structure Identification and Quantification in Food

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: Taxon

Volume 56, Issue 2, pp. 295-299

DOI: 10.1002/tax.562004

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