Through its communication strategy, MetaPlantCode will share its collective expertise with the scientific community, offering a starting point for new researchers and driving innovation in plant metabarcoding. This work by parties of the MetaPlantCode Consortium is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - CC-BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) This research was funded by Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership, in the context of the MetaPlantCode project under the 2022-2023 BiodivMon joint call. It was co-funded by the European Commission (GA No. 101052342) and the DFG GE 1242/23-1.
Mattern et al. (2026) studied this question.