Legumes

Barcoding the major Mediterranean leguminous crops by combining universal chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequence targets

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.

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