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Evaluation of Comparative DNA Amplification Fingerprinting for Rapid Species Identification within the Genus Clusia
Author(s) -
Böhm Martina,
Löw R.,
HaagKerwer Angela,
Lüttge U.,
Rausch Th.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
botanica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0932-8629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1993.tb00773.x
Subject(s) - clusiaceae , biology , botany , subspecies , dna profiling , genus , dna barcoding , taxon , dna , evolutionary biology , zoology , genetics
Understanding the taxonomiy of the tropical genus Clusia (Fam. Clusiaceae, Ord. Theales) has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in studying tropical dioecious, succulent, arborescent, epi‐ or hemiepiphytic taxa. Species identification by morphological traits often requires the terminal inflorescences and/or the succulent capsular fruits. To allow species differentiation based exclusively on vegetative tissue, a frequent necessity during ecological field studies, a procedure has been developed for rapid isolation of genomic DNA from Clusia leaf tissue followed by DNA amplification fingerprinting with a set of single arbitrary oligomer primers (23–27 mers). Fingerprints obtained with independent DNA preparations from one individual as well as DNA preparations from several individuals of the same species were identical for the major amplification products, although minor bands were somewhat variable. Polymorphic fingerprints have been obtained with 3 different primers for 3 Clusia species ( C. minor L., C. alata Pl. & Tr., C. multiflora H. B. K.), and the related Oedematopus obovatus Spruce ex. PL (Clusiaceae). The interspecific Randomly Amplified Polymorphic Markers (RAPDs) thus obtained allow a rapid identification of vegetative tissue samples collected in the field, and will assist in a revision of the controversial taxonomy of the genus Clusia .