Pollen Grains and DNA Barcodes (IMAGE)

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Pollen Grains and DNA Barcodes

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Combining the new rbcL database with the ITS2 sequence library enabled researchers to identify eight of nine species of pollen grains (left) by looking for unique differences in their DNA barcodes (right).

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Dr. Karen L. Bell

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Please cite the article: Bell, K. L., V. M. Loeffler, and B. J. Brosi. 2017. An <i>rbcL</i> reference library to aid in the identification of plant species mixtures by DNA metabarcoding. <i>Applications in Plant Sciences</i> 5(3): 1600110. doi:10.3732/apps.1600110. Articles and materials published in <i>Applications in Plant Sciences</i> are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY-NC-SA).

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