ArticleApplications in plant sciences2018
Finding the pond through the weeds: eDNA reveals underestimated diversity of pondweeds.
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- Authentication of the Botanical Origin of Honey:Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2025Article
- Catchment-based sampling of river eDNA integrates terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of alpine landscapes.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Environmental DNA analysis as an emerging non-destructive method for plant biodiversity monitoring: a review.AoB PLANTS · 2022Review
- Evolutionary history and patterns of geographical variation, fertility, and hybridization inFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Re-Establishment Techniques and Transplantations of Charophytes to Support Threatened Species.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Detection of an invasive aquatic plant in natural water bodies using environmental DNA.PloS one · 2019Article
- Finding the pond through the weeds: eDNA reveals underestimated diversity of pondweeds.Applications in plant sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
premise of the studyThe detection of environmental DNA (eDNA) using high-throughput sequencing has rapidly emerged as a method to detect organisms from environmental samples. However, eDNA studies of aquatic biomes have focused on surveillance of animal species with less emphasis on plants. Pondweeds are important bioindicators of freshwater ecosystems, although their diversity is underestimated due to difficulties in morphological identification and monitoring.
methodsA protocol was developed to detect pondweeds in water samples using
resultsWe detected two species earlier documented at the experimental site during ecological surveys ( DISCUSSION: Our targeted approach to track the species composition of pondweeds in freshwater ecosystems revealed underestimation of their diversity. This result suggests that eDNA is an effective tool for monitoring plant diversity in aquatic habitats.
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