Forensics is the application of science in a legal setting.
An example of modern forensics evidence is the use of DNA profiling.
Sources of DNA include blood, hair, semen, saliva, bone and tissue.
Fingerprints can be detected and used for forensic purposes..
In criminal cases, forensic scientists are often involved in the search for and examination of physical traces that might be useful for establishing or excluding an association between someone suspected of committing a crime and the scene of the crime or victim..
Discovering what the plant species is and where it comes from can help identify how the plant was used, or where and when a crime took place.
Some minuscule plant particles invisible to the naked eye can cling to material and be preserved for years, even decades.
This evidence can then be used in court.
Forensic botany is routinely used in the criminal investigations in few countries.
Plants are a good source of biological forensic evidence; this is due to their ubiquity, their ability to collect reference material, and their sensitivity to environmental changes.
However, in many countries, botanical evidence is recognised as being scientifically.
Botanical evidence is not mostly used for perpertration, instead it tends to serve as circumstantial evidence.
Plant materials constitute the basis, among others, for linking a suspect or object to a crime scene or a victim, confirming or not confirming an alibi, determining the post-mortem interval, and determining the origin of food/object.
Forensic botany, otherwise known as plant forensics, is the use of plants in criminal investigations.
This includes ,the analysis of plant and fungal parts, such as:
