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The article was orginally published at: Plant Barcodes to Help Quash Illegal Trade of Endangered Species
Plant DNA ‘barcodes’ can help identify plants quickly and easily, without requiring an on-site visual ID from a botanist. Photo by Victoria Porter via Flickr.com.
After four years of research, scientists have decided on a standard ‘DNA barcode’ for identifying plants. It sounds cool, if you like science (which I do), but is it perhaps one of those findings that’s great if you’re a researcher, but pretty much useless to the rest of the world? Well, no.
According to a BBC article, DNA barcodes can be used to investigate illegal trade of <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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