Research article in Sansevieria Journal by MCC professor Andy Baldwin and Robert H. Webb discusses how molecular biology, particularly as it involves the analysis of DNA, is growing in importance within plant taxonomy to resolve how families and genera are related and to even resolve plant species from one another.
Special acknowledgments to the many students at Mesa Community College who did the extractions of DNA from leaf specimens as part of an undergraduate research project. Carrie Lipka at MCC helped in troubleshooting lab protocols. Richard Funk helped obtain those specimens from the living collection at Arid Lands Greenhouses in Tucson, Arizona.