Abstracts

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is short DNA fragments left behind by organisms into the nonliving elements of environment and have become a foremost tool of life and environmental sciences to develop models for future, detect current level of ecosystems, get info from past situations since 1980’s. The early use of eDNA to detect microorganisms in water, sediment and soil followed by macroorganisms detection in seas and freshwater in the beginning of the 21 st centuary. Today it is possible to detect non-living pollutants in various environments. eDNA barcoding and metabarcoding has opened new horizons. Combining traditional methods or newest ones such as environmental RNA and using apps on site, modelling approach, and new generation sequencing and bioenformatics enabled getting more preciese results. eDNA has been used in plant sciences and agriculture but its use in weed science is not common. Introducing eDNA with other related innovations into weed science and invasive alien plants strategies to detect alien introductions and current soil seed bank can make ecological approach more applicable.

Keywords

Weeds, eDNA, Soil seed bank

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