DNA barcoding as an effective tool in improving a digital plant identification system: A case study for the area of Mt. Valerio, Trieste (NE Italy)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bruni, Ilaria ^a   De Mattia, Fabrizio ^a   Martellos, Stefano ^b   Galimberti, Andrea ^a   Savadori, Paolo ^a   Casiraghi, Maurizio ^a   Nimis, Pier Luigi ^b   Labra, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARPINUS ORIENTALIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; ITALY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OAK; PINE; PINUS NIGRA; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANT YIELD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS PUBESCENS; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; SHRUB; SPARTIUM JUNCEUM; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; ITALY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84869393149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043256     Document Type: Article

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