Lopes, C M
De Barba, M
Boyer, F
Mercier, C
da Silva Filho, P J S
Heidtmann, L M
Galiano, D
Kubiak, B B
Langone, P
Garcias, F M
Gielly, L
Coissac, E
de Freitas, T R O
Taberlet, P
Article History
Received: 22 January 2014
Revised: 22 October 2014
Accepted: 27 October 2014
First Online: 4 February 2015
Competing interests
: The authors note that LG and PT are two of the coinventors of patents related to theg/hprimers and the use of the P6 loop of the chloroplast trnL(UAA) intron for plant identification using degraded template DNA. These patents only restrict commercial applications and have no impact on the use of this locus by academic researchers.