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Plant material may vary enormously in structure and chemical composition. The same basic principles for collection of plant material for subsequent extraction and analysis of DNA may, however, be applied to tissues from most plant taxa, with modifications.
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Hyam, R. (1998). Field Collection: Plants. In: Karp, A., Isaac, P.G., Ingram, D.S. (eds) Molecular Tools for Screening Biodiversity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0019-6_11
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