I have a student who is working on a short-term (3-6 months) dissertation on a potentially new Libertia (Iridaceae) from the northern North Island, New Zealand. We have limited resources - but he is keen to try and use some DNA marker to determine (if anything) how different the 'new' entity is. We already know that the basic cpDNA markers (matK, trnl etc) don't help much, and ITS (as is typical for New Zealand) doesn't tend to resolve at species level in our Libertia. So we thought we'd try ETS - if someone has designed a primer that works for the Iridaceae. Failing that anyone can advise another fast moving, small marker that a short-term, study like this might be able to use?

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