Molecular identification of roots from a grassland community using size differences in fluorescently labelled PCR amplicons of three cpDNA regions

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 185-195

  Taggart, John M ^a   Cahill, James F ^a   Mcnickle, Gordon G ^a   Hall, Jocelyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community composition; Fluorescent fragment length polymorphism; Mixed samples; Roots; Species identification; TrnL trnF

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; FLUORESCENT DYES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 78650079107     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02893.x     Document Type: Article

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