P. Madesis, Ganopoulos, I., Ralli, P., and Tsaftaris, A.,
“Barcoding the major Mediterranean leguminous crops by combining universal chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequence targets”, vol. 11, pp. 2548-2558, 2012.
The ability to discriminate all species is the ultimate target in barcoding. The Mediterranean basin is a center of origin for legumes and thus they have played a key role in feeding the Mediterranean population. It is also a region with important protected designation of origin and protected geographical indication legumes that provide income in rural areas. We evaluated the use of two chloroplast regions, trnL and rpoC1, and a nuclear internal transcriber region, ITS2, for their efficiency to barcode the main Mediterranean leguminous crops.