Journal
3 BIOTECH
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13205-017-0746-1
Keywords
United Arab Emirates; Monocots; Eudicots; Native plants; rbcL; matK; Barcode
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- National Research Foundation of UAE [UIRCA 2013-24951]
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DNA barcoding of United Arab Emirates (UAE) native plants is of high practical and scientific value as the plants adapt to very harsh environmental conditions that challenge their identification. Fifty-one plant species belonged to 22 families, 2 monocots, and 20 eudicots; a maximum number of species being legumes and grasses were collected. To authenticate the morphological identification of the wild plant taxa, rbcL and matK regions were used in the study. The primer universality and discriminatory power of rbcL is 100%, while it is 35% for matK locus for these plant species. The sequences were submitted to GenBank; accession numbers were obtained for all the rbcL sequences and for 6 of matK sequences. We suggest rbcL as a promising barcode locus for the tested group of 51 plants. In the present study, an inexpensive, simple method of identification of rare desert plant taxa through rbcL barcode is being reported.
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