DNA Barcoding
The New York Botanical Garden Forest:
A Floristic Approach
to Identifying a DNA Barcode for Plants
PROJECT SUMMARY
In conjunction with the Plant Working Group (PWG)
of the Consortium for
the Barcode of Life (CBOL), The New
York Botanical Garden has undertaken a year-long pilot project to complete a
DNA barcode inventory of the approximately 343 species of vascular plants known
to occur within the Botanical Garden's 50-acre Forest. The
Botanical Garden's project has tested the same gene segments for sequencing as
those used in the PWG's effort to identify a universal plant DNA barcode.
Whereas the Consortium project is focused on specific lineages within the plant
kingdom, the Botanical Garden's project is focused on a subset of a
specific floristic region, as defined and documented by Gleason and Cronquist's
Manual of the Vascular Plants of
Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, published by The New York
Botanical Garden Press. The vascular
plant species of the Botanical Garden's forest have been documented in an
unpublished manuscript, The Native and Naturalized Flora of The New York
Botanical Garden, by Michael Nee, Ph.D. of the Garden's Institute of Systematic Botany. During
the 12-month period of data collection and analysis (January through December
2006), concerted efforts have been made also to publicize the project's
findings and to promote the idea of DNA barcoding within high impact media
circles.
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