Publications by authors named "Yu-Ran Dong"
A new spleenwort species, , was found and described from Danxia landform region in Guangdong, China. The new species has close resemblance to Ching ex S.H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMixed mating system and variable mating patterns in tropical woody bamboos.
BMC Plant Biol
October 2019
Background: So far, little is known in detail about mating systems of woody bamboos. Paternity analysis of offspring improved our understanding of these systems, and contributed to their germplasm conservation and genetic improvement.
Results: In this study, a paternity analysis of offspring from two consecutive mass or sporadically flowering events of Dendrocalamus membranaceus and D.
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on the evolutionary processes and speciation of Dendrocalamus sinicus, a type of woody bamboo, using genetic analysis of 232 individuals from 18 populations.
- Findings revealed significant genetic differences among populations, categorized into two groups based on culm types, with the identification of eleven haplotypes and two main lineages: Straight-culm and Sinuous-culm.
- The research highlights the historical dispersal and isolation of these bamboo populations, noting demographic expansion of the Straight-culm lineage around 11.3 thousand years ago, while contemporary gene flow indicates ongoing genetic exchange.
Premise Of The Study: Microsatellite primers were developed in the strongest and most economically important bamboo species, Dendrocalamus sinicus, to investigate its genetic variability.
Methods And Results: Using the Fast Isolation by AFLP of Sequences COntaining Repeats (FIASCO) protocol, 16 polymorphic primer sets were identified within 24 individuals from two geographic locations. The number of alleles per locus ranged from two to four, with a mean of 2.