Nuclear DNA content variation of Eleocharis palustris agg. in
Europe

a 2002

Nuclear DNA content variation of Eleocharis palustris agg. in Europe

BUREŠ, Petr, Lucie HOROVÁ and Sierra Dawn STONEBERG HOLT

Basic information

Original name

Nuclear DNA content variation of Eleocharis palustris agg. in Europe

Authors

BUREŠ, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Lucie HOROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Sierra Dawn STONEBERG HOLT (840 United States of America, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Plant Species-level Systematics: Patterns processes and new applications, 2002

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/02:00006666

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords in English

Cyperaceae; DNA content; Eleocharis; Flow cytometry

Abstract

V originále

Following morphological measurements and chromosomal counts, carried out on native populations in Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, which confirmed six taxa within the Eleocharis palustris agg. in Europe (Bureš 1998, 1999, 2002), we have focused on the study of relative DNA content variability of these taxa using DAPI flow cytometry. Both subspecies of E. mamillata, which have the same dominant chromosome number 2n=16, have very similar DNA contents. On the other hand, closely related E. palustris subsp. palustris in which 2n=16 also dominates, has a smaller DNA content than either subspecies of E. mamillata. It is also unusual that E. palustris subsp. vulgaris with a dominant 2n=38, 39 has a larger DNA content than E. uniglumis subsp. uniglumis, which has a dominant 2n=46. E. uniglumis subsp. sterneri, described by Strandhede in Bot. Not. 114: 433 (1961) as endemic to the islands of Öland and Gotland (Baltic Sea) and confirmed later by Bureš (1998, 1999) from Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and Croatia, has large variability of chromosome numbers (Strandhede 1965, Bureš 1998). Likewise DNA content variability of E. uniglumis subsp. sterneri is very large in relation to the other five taxa. Our study was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic (research project MSM 143100010 Spatial and Temporal Biodiversity Dynamics in Ecosystems of Central Europe).

Links

MSM 143100010, plan (intention)

Name: Časoprostorová dynamika biodiverzity v ekosystémech střední Evropy.

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics in ecosystems of Central Europe

Citovat

BUREŠ, Petr, Lucie HOROVÁ and Sierra Dawn STONEBERG HOLT. Nuclear DNA content variation of Eleocharis palustris agg. in Europe. In Plant Species-level Systematics: Patterns processes and new applications. 2002.

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BUREŠ, Petr, Lucie HOROVÁ and Sierra Dawn STONEBERG HOLT. Nuclear DNA content variation of Eleocharis palustris agg. in Europe. In \textit{Plant Species-level Systematics: Patterns processes and new applications}. 2002.

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