Publications by authors named "S Siljak-Yakovlev"

L. (Pedaliaceae) is one of the most economically important oil crops in the world, thanks to the high oil content of its seeds and its nutritional value. It is cultivated all over the world, mainly in Asia and Africa.

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L. (Amaryllidaceae), a facultative serpentinophyte, is a highly variable species and particularly important ancestor of cultivated daffodils, but is rarely studied in field populations. This study, based on natural populations in the Balkans, focused on karyotype variability, genome size, ploidy and the presence of B chromosomes.

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Allopolyploidy is considered as a principal driver that shaped angiosperms' evolution in terms of diversification and speciation. Despite the unexpected high frequency of polyploidy that was recently discovered in the coniferous genus , little is known about the origin of these polyploid taxa. Here, we conducted the first study devoted to deciphering the origin of the only hexaploid taxon in along with four of its closely related tetraploid taxa using AFLP markers with four primers combinations.

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Natural wild populations of C. rupestris and C. salonitana were studied to determine possible relationships between the volatile oil (VO) composition and ploidy level.

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The interplay of polyploidisation, hybridization, and apomixis contributed to the exceptional diversity of (Rosaceae), giving rise to a mosaic of genetic and morphological entities. The species complex from the mountains of Central and South-eastern Europe represents an allopolyploid apomictic system of populations that originated following hybridisation between and . However, the mode and frequency of such allopolyploidisations and the relationships among different, morphologically more or less similar populations that have often been described as different taxa remain largely unexplored.

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