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Development of Molecular Markers for Determining Continental Origin of Wood from White Oaks (Quercus L. sect. Quercus).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Schroeder Hilke, Cronn Richard, Yanbaev Yulai, Jennings Tara, Mader Malte, Degen Bernd, Kersten Birgit
Abstract excerpt
To detect and avoid illegal logging of valuable tree species, identification methods for the origin of timber are necessary. We used next-generation sequencing to identify chloroplast genome regions that differentiate the origin of white oaks from the three continents; Asia, Europe, and North America. By using the chloroplast genome of Asian Q. mongolica as a reference, we identified 861 variant sites (672 single...
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