Sunday, 5 January 2014

Tell me your barcode, and I will tell you what palm you are

Reliable and cost-effective species recognition is the dream of many scientists, and has important applications. While the use of morphological features is often uncertain, and can lead to misidentification, species identification based on the composition of short DNA sequences -the so-called "DNA barcodes"- has proven to be the safest way to reach this goal, both in animals and in many groups of plants.Palms belonging to the genus Phoenix, including the economically-important date palm Phoenix dactylifera, i.e. via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..


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