- Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols
- Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
- Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts
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- About this book
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Plant taxonomy is an ancient discipline facing new challenges with the current availability of a vast array of molecular approaches which allow reliable genealogy-based classifications. Although the primary focus of plant taxonomy is on the delimitation of species, molecular approaches also provide a better understanding of evolutionary processes, a particularly important issue for some taxonomic complex groups. Molecular Plant Taxonomy: Methods and Protocols describes laboratory protocols based on the use of nucleic acids and chromosomes for plant taxonomy, as well as guidelines for phylogenetic analysis of molecular data. Experts in the field also contribute review and application chapters that will encourage the reader to develop an integrative taxonomy approach, combining nucleic acid and cytogenetic data together with other crucial information (taxonomy, morphology, anatomy, ecology, reproductive biology, biogeography, paleobotany), which will help not only to best circumvent species delimitation but also to resolve the evolutionary processes in play. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols, and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and easily accessible, Molecular Plant Taxonomy: Methods and Protocols seeks to provide conceptual as well as technical guidelines to plant taxonomists and geneticists.
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Plant Taxonomy: A Historical Perspective, Current Challenges, and Perspectives
Pages 1-37
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Guidelines for the Choice of Sequences for Molecular Plant Taxonomy
Pages 39-51
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Leaf Tissue Sampling and DNA Extraction Protocols
Pages 53-67
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DNA Extraction from Herbarium Specimens
Pages 69-84
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Analysis of Variation in Chloroplast DNA Sequences
Pages 85-120
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Molecular Plant Taxonomy
- Book Subtitle
- Methods and Protocols
- Editors
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- Pascale Besse
- Series Title
- Methods in Molecular Biology
- Series Volume
- 1115
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights for India: Researchco Book Centre, New Delhi, India
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-62703-767-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-62703-767-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-62703-766-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-5987-7
- Series ISSN
- 1064-3745
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 402
- Number of Illustrations
- 38 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
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