Assessment of age and greenness of herbarium specimens as predictors for successful extraction and amplification of DNA

Blumea: Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 407-428

  Erkens, Roy H J ^a   Cross, Hugh ^b   Maas, Jan W ^a   Hoenselaar, Kim ^c   Chatrou, Lars W ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best laboratory practice; Guatteria; Herbarium specimen collection and selection; Rauwolf herbarium; Zehneria

Indexed keywords

GUATTERIA; ZEHNERIA;

EID: 55949094909     PISSN: 00065196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3767/000651908X608052     Document Type: Article

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