Introducing an rbcL and a trnL reference library to aid in the metabarcoding analysis of foraged plants from two semi-arid eastern South African savanna bioregions

• Danielle Botha,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• Mornè du Plessis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Core Sequencing Facility, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Frances Siebert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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• Sandra Barnard

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sandra.barnard@nwu.ac.za

  Affiliation Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9299-2769

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