Conservation of Endangered Wild Harvested Medicinal Plants: Use of DNA Barcoding

Novel Plant Bioresources: Applications in Food, Medicine and Cosmetics

Volumn 9781118460610, Issue , 2014, Pages 81-88

  Veldman, Sarina ^a   Otieno, Joseph ^b   Gravendeel, Barbara ^c,d   van Andel, Tinde ^c,d   de Boer, Hugo ^a,c,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation; DNA barcoding; Endangered medicinal plants; Wild harvesting

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DNA; HARVESTING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

DNA BARCODING; ENDANGERED MEDICINAL PLANT; HERBAL PRODUCTS; MEDICINAL PLANTS; MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR MARKER; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; POWER; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WILD HARVESTING;

NUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 84907960035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118460566.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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