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Home 2022 August 11

Tracing the world’s timber: the status of scientific verification technologies for species and origin identification

  • August 11, 2022
Network, Timber tracking
Results of this newly published study show that for species identification, reference data exist for 100% of taxa using wood anatomy, 86% using genetics, 41% for using DART TOFMS, and 6% using NIRS. For origin identification, data exist for 24% of taxa, with most studies applying genetic approaches (23%).
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