Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

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2006
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Abstract
DNA barcoding should provide rapid, accurate and automatable species identifications by using a standardized DNA region as a tag. Based on sequences available in GenBank and sequences produced for this study, we evaluated the resolution power of the whole chloroplast trn L (UAA) intron (254–767 bp) and of a shorter fragment of this intron (the P6 loop, 10–143 bp) amplified with highly conserved primers. The main limitation of the whole trn L intron for DNA barcoding remains its relatively low resolution (67.3% of the species from GenBank unambiguously identified). The resolution of the P6 loop is lower (19.5% identified) but remains higher than those of existing alternative systems. The resolution is much higher in specific contexts such as species originating from a single ecosystem, or commonly eaten plants. Despite the relatively low resolution, the whole trn L intron and its P6 loop have many advantages: the primers are highly conserved, and the amplification system is very robust. The P6 loop can even be amplified when using highly degraded DNA from processed food or from permafrost samples, and has the potential to be extensively used in food industry, in forensic science, in diet analyses based on feces and in ancient DNA studies.
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Authors Pierre Taberlet, Éric Coissac, François Pompanon, Ludovic Gielly, C. Miquel, Alice Valentini, Thierry Vermat, Gérard Corthier, Christian Brochmann, Eske Willerslev
Journal Nucleic Acids Research
Year 2006
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10.1093/nar/gkl938
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https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-pdf/35/3/e14/7130532/gkl938.pdf
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