L. and L. are valuable and promising food crops for multi-purpose use that are distributed worldwide in temperate, subtropical, and tropical zones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cosmopolitan genus L. (Fabaceae) is divided into sections , , and This genus includes many valuable medicinal, melliferous, and forage species. The species taxonomy and genome relationships within the sections are still unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe species of the genus are difficult for identification, and the genus is difficult for taxonomic treatment. The regions of 35S rRNA genes were studied for the species of the genus of different geographical origin with a method of sequencing by Sanger (ITS1-5.8S rRNA gene-ITS2, 14 species) and with a method of a locus-specific next-generation sequencing (NGS) on the Illumina platform (ITS1-5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus L. (Fabaceae) includes about 200 species of annual and perennial herbs distributed in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America. Many species of this genus are valuable medicinal, melliferous, and forage resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArtificial hybrids between cultivated species and wild that possess genes for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses can be important for oat breeding. For the first time, a comprehensive study of genomes of artificial fertile hybrids × and their parental species was carried out based on the chromosome FISH mapping of satellite DNA sequences (satDNAs) and also analysis of intragenomic polymorphism in the 18S-ITS1-5.8S rDNA region, using NGS data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe taxonomically challenging genus L. (Asteraceae) includes lots of medicinal species characterized by their high morphological and karyological variability. For the first time, a repeatome analysis of a valuable medicinal plant L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFL. (Polemoniaceae) is a valuable medicinal herb with a wide spectrum of biological activities. Under natural conditions, the productivity of this species is rather low.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWithin the complicated and controversial taxonomy of cosmopolitan genus L. (Lamiaceae) are valuable species L. and L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh-copy tandemly organized repeats (TRs), or satellite DNA, is an important but still enigmatic component of eukaryotic genomes. TRs comprise arrays of multi-copy and highly similar tandem repeats, which makes the elucidation of TRs a very challenging task. Oxford Nanopore sequencing data provide a valuable source of information on TR organization at the single molecule level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe section is the largest clade in the genus L. (Fabaceae). Representatives of the sect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe phylogeny of members of the family DC. ex Perleb has not been adequately studied. In particular, data on the phylogenetic relationship between Planch.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus P. Beauv. (Poaceae) involves a group of widespread polymorphic species, and many of them are highly tolerant to stressful environmental conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe systematic knowledge on the genus L. (Fabaceae: Hedysareae) is still incomplete. The species from the section are valuable forage and medicinal resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFL. is a medicinal plant well-known as a valuable source of isoquinoline alkaloids, which has a variety of pharmacological properties including anti-viral and anti-bacterial effects. However, considerable intraspecific bio-morphological variability in complicates raw material identification and verification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe morphological, meiotic and chromosomal variability were studied in two cultivars of Calendula officinalis L. and their mutant lines obtained though chemical mutagenesis using diethyl sulphate (DES) (0.04%, 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ontogenesis and reproduction of plants cultivated aboard a spacecraft occur inside the unique closed ecological system wherein plants are subjected to serious abiotic stresses. For the first time, a comparative molecular cytogenetic analysis of L. () grown on board the RS ISS during the Expedition-14 and Expedition-16 and also plants of their succeeding (F1 and F2) generations cultivated on Earth was performed in order to reveal possible structural chromosome changes in the pea genome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlax, L., is a valuable multi-purpose plant, and currently, its genome is being extensively investigated. Nevertheless, mapping of genes in flax genome is still remaining a challenging task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genus Deschampsia P. Beauv (Poaceae) involves a group of widespread polymorphic species. Some of them are highly tolerant to stressful and variable environmental conditions, and D.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an important plant valuable for industry. Some flax lines can undergo heritable phenotypic and genotypic changes (LIS-1 insertion being the most common) in response to nutrient stress and are called plastic lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeschampsia antarctica Desv. (Poaceae) (2n = 26) is one of the two vascular plants adapted to the harshest environment of the Antarctic. Although the species is a valuable model for study of environmental stress tolerance in plants, its karyotype is still poorly investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKaryotypes of 3 diploid wheat species containing different variants of the A-genome, Triticum boeoticum (A(b)), T. monococcum (A(b)), and T. urartu (A(u)), were examined using C-banding and FISH with DNA probes representing 5S and 45S rDNA families, the microsatellite sequences GAAn and GTTn, the already known satellite sequences pSc119.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe wide variation in chromosome number found in species of the genus Linum (2n = 16, 18, 20, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 42, 72, 84) indicates that chromosomal mutations have played an important role in the speciation of this taxon. To contribute to a better understanding of the genetic diversity and species relationships in this genus, comparative studies of karyotypes and genomes of species within section Syllinum Griseb. (2n = 26, 28) were carried out.
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