DNA barcode for world's plants agreed


	DNA barcode for world's plants agreed

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7-28-2009 7:47 PM

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7-29-2009 12:34 PM

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Glad someone is combating the GMO companies and helping us identify real authentic organic plants.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dccda39e-9f29-47e7-b807-9232eda42369/35FD8EC7-596E-4DDF-AB34-1A601F633B6C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nhm.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nhm.ac.uk/img/D2BF71B6-7FE8-4FC7-8989-C76588E01E0D" alt="Flowers of the buffalobur nightshade, solanum rostratum" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html"><P class="leader">A DNA barcode to identify the world's plants has been agreed by an international team of researchers, including those at the Natural History Museum, scientists report today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html"><P>The announcement, published in <B>PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences),</B> is the culmination of 4 years of work by 52 scientists from 10 different countries and means there is now a global standard way for identifying plant species.<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html"><P>The barcode comprises 2 small regions found in the DNA of almost every plant on Earth. The barcodes will be put into a database that will be shared worldwide, providing the foundation for the widespread use of DNA technologies to identify plants.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html"><H5>A tricky task</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html"><P>Efforts to build DNA barcode databases for <B>animal species</B> have been underway since 2003. However, reaching consensus on which region or regions to use for plants proved more challenging.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/july/dna-barcode-for-worlds-plants-agreed.html">needed to identify a section of DNA that was most suitable for telling most of the hundreds of thousands of plant species apart.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35FD8EC7-596E-4DDF-AB34-1A601F633B6C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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