Botanical identities

摘要

Researchers have used a DNA sequence to distinguish between more than 1,600 botanical samples from two biodiversity hotspots, providing the largest test yet of DNA barcoding' in plants.But this will not end the ongoing debate over which barcodes botanists should adopt. "I think this is a step forward," says John Kress of the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. "But I don't think it means we're there yet."