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2015

Plant Sciences

TÜBİTAK

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Relationships And Generic Delimitation Of Eurasian Genera Of The Subtribe Asterinae (Astereae, Asteraceae) Using Molecular Phylogeny Of Its, Elena Korolyuk, Alexey Makunin, Tatiana Matveeva Jan 2015

Relationships And Generic Delimitation Of Eurasian Genera Of The Subtribe Asterinae (Astereae, Asteraceae) Using Molecular Phylogeny Of Its, Elena Korolyuk, Alexey Makunin, Tatiana Matveeva

Turkish Journal of Botany

The subtribe Asterinae (Astereae, Asteraceae) includes highly variable, often polyploid species. Recent findings based on molecular methods led to revision of its volume. However, most of these studies lacked species from Eurasia, where a lot of previous taxonomic treatments of the subtribe exist. In this study we used molecular phylogenetics methods with internal transcribed spacer (ITS) as a marker to resolve evolutionary relations between representatives of the subtribe Asterinae from Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the European part of Russia. Our reconstruction revealed that a clade including all Asterinae species is paraphyletic. Inside this clade, there are species with unresolved basal positions, …


A New Species Of Teucrium Sect. Scordium (Lamiaceae) From Se Of Turkey, Taner Özcan, Tuncay Di̇rmenci̇, Fati̇h Coşkun, Ekrem Akçi̇çek, Özal Güner Jan 2015

A New Species Of Teucrium Sect. Scordium (Lamiaceae) From Se Of Turkey, Taner Özcan, Tuncay Di̇rmenci̇, Fati̇h Coşkun, Ekrem Akçi̇çek, Özal Güner

Turkish Journal of Botany

A new species of Teucrium L. from Southeast Anatolia (Turkey), Teucrium sirnakense Özcan & Dirmenci, is described and illustrated. The new species belongs to the sect. Scordium Boiss. and is closely related to Teucrium melissoides Boiss. & Hausskn. and Teucrium scordium L. s.l. The differences between the new species and its allies are discussed. A description, distribution map, ITS nrDNA phylogeny, and taxonomic comments on the new species are provided.


Molecular Phylogeny And Biogeography Of The South American Genus Metrodorea (Rutaceae), Pedro Dias, Renata Giassi Udulutsch, Jose Rubens Pirani Jan 2015

Molecular Phylogeny And Biogeography Of The South American Genus Metrodorea (Rutaceae), Pedro Dias, Renata Giassi Udulutsch, Jose Rubens Pirani

Turkish Journal of Botany

The genus Metrodorea (Rutaceae), with 6 species, has representatives that vary from small shrubs to tall trees, and its leaf sheaths make it unique in the family; it is restricted to South America, with species diversity concentrated in Brazil. In this study, we applied Bayesian and parsimony methods to infer the molecular phylogeny of Metrodorea, and cladistic biogeographic methods to propose an area cladogram for the genus. All results supported Metrodorea as monophyletic, and the presence of leaf sheaths is reinforced as its key diagnostic feature. Bayesian and parsimony trees were identical for relationships within Metrodorea. The crown clade (M. …


A New Species Of Sisymbrium (Brassicaceae) From Turkey: Morphological And Molecular Evidence, Bi̇rol Mutlu, Şükrü Karakuş Jan 2015

A New Species Of Sisymbrium (Brassicaceae) From Turkey: Morphological And Molecular Evidence, Bi̇rol Mutlu, Şükrü Karakuş

Turkish Journal of Botany

Sisymbrium malatyanum Mutlu & Karakuş is identified as a new species from Malatya Province, East Anatolia, Turkey. Morphological and molecular (entire ITS region) studies proved that this species especially resembles Sisymbrium brassiciforme, S. heteromallum, S. altissimum, S. damascenum, and S. austriacum subsp. contortum. New species and related taxa are discussed in terms of morphological and molecular differences. Epicuticular wax on the fruit surface of the new species was determined. SEM images (hairs on leaf, stem, fruit, stylus, and epicuticular wax crystalloids) and field photographs (habitat, flowering and fruiting shape of habitus, and fruit) are presented.