Botany, forensic

The above list of applications is by no means complete, and there are many other areas of science and technology that might benefit from rapid and sensitive VOC measurements, such as botany, forensic science and security screening. Some of these topics are considered in detail in the later chapters of this book (Chapters 5-9). In this short overview, we hope to... 

Hall, D. W. (1997). Forensic botany, in Forensic Taphonomy The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains (W. D. Haglund and M. H. Sorg, Eds.). Boca Raton, FL CRC Press, 353-363. 

Coyle, H. M. (2005). Forensic Botany. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press. 

Linacre, A., Hsieh, H., and Lee, J. C. (2005). Case study DNA profiling to link drug seizures in the United Kingdom, in Forensic Botany Principals and Applications to Criminal Casework (H. M. Coyle, Ed.). Boca Raton, FL CRC Press, 163-166. 

Forensic science is really a study of how the world is put together. My work involves chemistry, physics, botany, and geology, so it s impossible to get bored. 

Loveridge and Smales (560) were the first to publish an extensive paper about the applications of activation analysis to biochemistry. Their report covered the period 1944-1957. Since then many other review articles have been written about its capabilities as a methodology to analyze for trace substances in problems from medicine, veterinary medicine, forensic medicine, dental science, pharmacology, botany and agriculture. More specifically, these articles can be categorized in the following manner ... 

Although species is less an issue today than 20 years ago, a forensic chemist may still be asked on the stand if the plant matter that he or she identified as marijuana was from Cannabis sativa L. rather than some other Cannabis species, such as Cannabis indica. Unless also an expert in Cannabis botany, the chemist is not qualified to answer such questions and should unequivocally say so. Many jurisdictions have adopted a definition that mentions the genus without specifying the species to address this ambiguity. 

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