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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJBL</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJBL</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJBL</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of  Biology and Life Science</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJBL</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-0606</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10003</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Botany</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Reviewing DNA barcoding as a means of identifying rare and endangered plant species</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="7" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Tejas Khatri</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>M.S.J. College</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-26"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2022</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><elocation-id>V1-I1-2023</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-11-11"><day>11</day><month>11</month><year iso-8601-date="2022">2022</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2022-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2022-12-04"><day>04</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2022 Krupali Patel Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Krupali Patel</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJBL/currentissue/reviewing-dna-barcoding-as-a-means-of-identifying-rare-and-endangered-plant-species"/><abstract><p>Genamic barcoding is a relatively new concept. The system&#xD;
was developed to automate the identification of species with high precision and&#xD;
speed by using tag DNA sequences that are already widely used in biology. DNA&#xD;
barcoding may be useful for taxonomists and environmentalists. The initial goal&#xD;
of DNA barcoding is to create a database of all species' barcode sequences that&#xD;
can be accessed online. These databases will be used as a reference point&#xD;
against which DNA barcodes from recognised and unidentified samples may be&#xD;
compared. Because of this, it may be possible to solve several problems with&#xD;
conventional structural taxonomy, such as misinterpreting species because of&#xD;
phenotypic variation and genotypic fluctuation of the characters, failing to&#xD;
recognise cryptic taxa, and having trouble locating reliable characters because&#xD;
of lengthy maturation times (CBOL Plant Working Group, 2009). Locations where&#xD;
damage or a lack of development of morphological features makes it difficult to&#xD;
accurately identify species using just morphological qualities might benefit&#xD;
greatly from this method. DNA barcoding is a helpful tool since it provides&#xD;
information about undetected species, but it should not be mistaken for&#xD;
classification. Methods for selecting and redefining plant barcodes are&#xD;
discussed, and the authors share their thoughts on and recommendations for&#xD;
future research and practise.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>barcoding</kwd><kwd> species</kwd><kwd> cyperaceae</kwd><kwd> endangered</kwd><kwd> specimens</kwd><kwd> phylogenies</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>Not applicable&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>I thank the following individuals for their expertise and assistance in all aspects of our study and for their help in writing the manuscript. I am also grateful for the insightful comments given by anonymous peer reviewers. Everyone's generosity and expertise have improved this study in myriad ways and saved me from many errors.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>CBOL Plant Working Group (2009) A DNA Barcode for Land Plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 12794-12797.&#xD;
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905845106</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
