DURHAM, N.C. – What people say they’ve eaten and what they’ve actually eaten are often two very different lists of foods. But a new technique using DNA barcoding to identify the plant matter in human ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - Adam Schneider is an assistant professor of biology at UW-La Crosse. He’s teaching a plant taxonomy course to help students identify plants they may see in their daily lives.

It's not easy eating green. Most plants are heavily defended with chemicals to deter plant eaters. For these herbivores, ...

For this reason, plant barcoders have focused on combinations of chloroplast genes, nuclear markers, and non-coding regions of DNA to serve as the plant barcode.

Kress, W. John, Wurdack, Kenneth J., Zimmer, Elizabeth Anne, Weigt, Lee A., and Janzen, Daniel H. 2005. "Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants ...

The study of fungal-plant dynamics is a burgeoning field that delves into the multifaceted interactions between fungi and ...

The increase in illegal logging and timber trade of CITES-listed tropical species necessitates the development of unambiguous identification methods at the species level. For these methods to be fully ...