Ethnobotany

Past Publications

  • Hollingsworth PM, Forrest LL, Spouge JL, Hajibabaei M, Ratnasingham S, van der Bank M, Chase MW, Cowan RS, Erickson DL, Fazekas AJ, Graham SW, James KE, Kim K-J, Kress WJ, Schneider H, van AlphenStahl J, Barrett SCH, van den Berg C, Bogarin D, Burgess KS, Cameron KM, Carine M, Chacon J, Clark A, Clarkson JJ, Conrad F, Devey DS, Ford CS, Hedderson TAJ, Hollingsworth ML, Husband BC, Kelly LJ, Kesanakurti PR, Kim JS, Kim Y-D, Lahaye R, Lee H-L, Long DG, Madrinan S, Maurin O, Meusnier I, Newmaster SG, Park C-W, Percy DM, Petersen G, Richardson JE, Salazar GA, Savolainen V, Seberg O, Wilkinson MJ, Yi D-K, and Little DP (2009) A DNA barcode for land plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106(31): 12794–12797.
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  • Newmaster SG and Ragupathy S (2009) Ethnobotany Genomics – Use of DNA barcoding to explore cryptic diversity in economically important plants. Journal of Science and Technology, 2(5): 1-8.
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  • Newmaster SG and Ragupathy S (2009)Testing plant barcoding in a sister species complex of pantropical Acacia (Mimosoideae, Fabaceae) Molecular Ecological Resources, 9 (s1), 172–180.
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  • Ragupathy S, Newmaster SG, Velusamy B, Murugesan M (2009) DNA barcoding discriminates a new cryptic grass species revealed in an ethnobotany study by the hill tribes of the Western Ghats in southern IndiaMolecular Ecology Resources, 9 (s1), 164–171
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  • Newmaster SG, Ragupathy S, and Janovec J (2009) A botanical renaissance: state-of-the-art DNA bar coding facilitates an Automated Identification Technology system for plants. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 35(1): 50–60.
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  • Fazekas AJ, Burgess KS, Kesanakurti PR, Graham SW, Newmaster SG, Husband BC, Percy DM, Hajibabaei M, and Barrett SCH (2008) Multiple multilocus DNA barcodes from the plastid genome discriminate plant species equally well. Public Library of Science ONE, 3(7): e2802.

  • Ivanova NV, Fazekas AJ, and PDN Hebert (2008) Semi-automated, membrane-based protocol for DNA isolation from plants. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 26: 186–198.

  • Newmaster SG, Fazekas AJ, Steeves RAD, and Janovec J (2008) Testing candidate plant barcode regions in the Myristicaceae. Molecular Ecology Notes, 8: 480-490.

  • Newmaster SG, Fazekas AJ, and Ragupathy S. (2006) DNA barcoding in land plants: an evaluation of rbcL in a multi-gene tiered approach. Canadian Journal of Botany, 84: 335–341.