Authors: KARP ANGELA SEBERG OLE BUIATTI MARCELLO
Publish Date: 1996/08/01
Volume: 78, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-149
Abstract
A variety of different molecular techniques can be used for the study of botanical diversity Restriction fragment length polymorphism RFLP arbitrary primed DNA amplified fragment length polymorphism AFLP variable number of tandem repeats VNTR sequencetagged simple sequence repeats SSRs and polymerase chain reaction PCR sequencing are briefly reviewed here These techniques differ in the way that they resolve genetic differences in the type of data that they generate and in the taxonomic levels at which they may be most appropriately applied It is imperative to understand the different ways in which the data from the different molecular techniques can be utilized before embarking upon a programme of applying them to any particular diversity study
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