POPLAR TREE EXAMPLE

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Poplar trees are grown commercially throughout the United Kingdom. The Forestry Commission has the task of ensuring that clones can be unambiguously identified. In the past, this identification was done using morphological characters but nowadays is performed using molecular data.

A 4-year-old Beaupre hybrid
A mature poplar

Cottrell, Forrest and White (1996) have provided RAPD data for three species and several hybrids.

Unweighted Euclidean distances have been used in the analysis.

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