Plant DNA Metabarcoding
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 3611
Special Issue Editors
Interests: DNA metabarcoding; metagenomics; bioinformatics; plant; fungi; microbial biodiversity and ecology
Interests: plant biodiversity; agrobiodiversity; molecular identification; food traceability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
plant detection and identification are fundamental in many types of research including biomonitoring and biodiversity assessment in different environments such as air, soil, and water, diet analysis, invasive and protected species recognition, food and herbal product composition.
Among molecular tools, DNA metabarcoding is becoming the gold standard for these kinds of studies. This technique allows for high taxonomic resolution, reproducibility, and short processing time. However, there is still room for improvement in plant science, from standardized laboratory procedures, to barcode choice, to the availability of curated databases.
This Special Issue of Plants will investigate the broad potential of plant DNA metabarcoding, providing an up-to-date overview of widespread but also novel applications. We encourage papers dealing with the comparison and integration of DNA metabarcoding with other techniques, such as microscopy and qPCR. We also welcome methodological works regarding the evaluation of different molecular and bioinformatic protocols.
Dr. Elisa Banchi
Prof. Massimo Labra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant biodiversity
- high-throughput sequencing (HTS, NGS)
- algae
- pollen
- herbal products
- dietary analyses
- amplicon sequencing
