A botanical renaissance: State-of-the-art DNA bar coding facilitates an Automated Identification Technology system for plants

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-60

  Newmaster, Steven G ^a,b,d   Ragupathy, Subramanyam ^a,b   Janovec, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bar coding; Bio informatics; DNA technology; Flora; Herbarium; Plant identification; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; TAXONOMIES;

BAR CODING; DNA TECHNOLOGY; FLORA; HERBARIUM; PLANT IDENTIFICATION;

DNA;

EID: 64549146738     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2009.024595     Document Type: Article

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