DNA barcoding discriminates a new cryptic grass species revealed in an ethnobotany study by the hill tribes of the Western Ghats in southern India

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 164-171

  Ragupathy, Subramanyam ^b   Newmaster, Steven G ^a,b   Murugesan, Maruthakkutti ^c   Balasubramaniam, Velusamy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aboriginal classification; Anthropology; Barcoding; Biodiversity; Ethnobotany; Floristic; Grass; Molecular taxonomy; New species; Plants; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

TRIPOGON;

EID: 65349159232     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02641.x     Document Type: Article

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