Zarrei’s paper listed on Annals of Botany’s editors choice

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• Mehdi Zarrei,
• Nadia Talent,
• Maria Kuzmina,
• Jeanette Lee,
• Jensen Lund,
• Paul R. Shipley,
• Saša Stefanović,
• and

  Timothy A. Dickinson

DNA barcodes from four loci provide poor resolution of taxonomic groups in the genus

CrataegusAoB PLANTS

(2015)

7:

plv045

doi:10.1093/aobpla/plv045

first published online

April 28, 2015

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The leaves and fruits of some of the approximately 230 species of hawthorn (Crataegus) yield natural health products with significant therapeutic effects on symptoms of cardiovascular disease. DNA barcoding could be a valuable tool for authenticating these products, but only a small fraction of the 93 taxa that we examined were distinguished, even though all major clades and eight out of ten taxonomic sections of the genus were included. DNA barcoding as currently practised thus has limited utility in

Crataegus. Hybridization, lineage sorting due to incomplete concerted evolution in ITS2, and limited variation in plastid loci are implicated.