Kazakhstan Has an Unexpected Diversity of Medicinal Plants of the Genus (Acoraceae) and Could Be a Cradle of the Triploid Species .

The group, or sweet flag, includes important medicinal plants and is classified into three species: (diploid), (tetraploid), and (sterile triploid of hybrid origin). Members of the group are famous as components of traditional Indian medicine, and early researchers suggested the origin of the sweet flag in tropical Asia. Subsequent research led to an idea of the origin of the triploid in the Amur River basin in temperate Asia, because this was the only region where both diploids and tetraploids were known to co-occur and be capable of sexual reproduction.

Phylogeny and Flow Cytometry of the Genus Moq. (Amaranthaceae s.l.) in Kazakhstan.

The article presents data on phylogeny, genome size, and ploidy of species of the genus Moq. in the flora of Kazakhstan. Genus belongs to the tribe Salicornieae of the subfamily Salicornioideae of the family Chenopodiaceae and unites eight species, the main range of which covers the Iranian-Turanian and Central Asian deserts.

and -Surprisingly Diverse Old Steppe Species, Showing a Clear Geographical Barrier in the Area of Lake Zaysan.

Polymorph s.l. from monotypic sect.

Karyotype and genome size variation in white-flowered sect. (Ranunculaceae).

Comparative karyomorphological analyses of six out of the eight white-flowered species of Eranthissect.Shibateranthis have been carried out. All studied specimens of , , , and had a somatic chromosome number 2 = 16 with basic chromosome number = 8.

Simultaneous TALEN-mediated knockout of chrysanthemum DMC1 genes confers male and female sterility.

Genome editing has become one of the key technologies for plant breeding. However, in polyploid species such as chrysanthemum, knockout of all loci of multiple genes is needed to eliminate functional redundancies. We identified six cDNAs for the CmDMC1 genes involved in meiotic homologous recombination in chrysanthemum.