0436259 - BÚ 2015 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Mavrodiev, E. V. - Krahulec, František - Soltis, D. E. - Soltis, P.S.
A cryptic taxon rather than a hybrid species of Tragopogon (Asteraceae) from the Czech Republic.
Kew Bulletin. Roč. 68, č. 1 (2013), s. 133-141. ISSN 0075-5974. E-ISSN 1874-933X
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : DNA-sequence polyformism * nuclear ribosomal DNA * miscellus Asteraceae * evolution * fertility
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics

Tragopogon xmirabilis Rouy is described as a diploid hybrid between T. porrifolius and T. pratensis. A population of T. xmirabilis from Central Bohemia, Czech Republic, was recently investigated and, unlike previous reports of T. xmirabilis, was found to be highly fertile. This fertile diploid hybrid population was considered to represent an alternative evolutionary pathway to polyploidy in Tragopogon. To determine the parentage of the plants from Bohemia, we investigated 12 samples of T. xmirabilis with ITS, ETS, LFY and plastid (rpL16 gene, intron 1, tRNA-Leu (trnL) gene, intron, trnL-trnF intergenic spacer, psbA-trnH intergenic spacer, and trnG-trnT intergenic spacer) sequence data. None of the Bohemian plants have sequences that are consistent with a hybrid origin between T. porrifolius (incl. T. australis) and T. pratensis. Our data suggest that this fertile population of "T. xmirabilis" may represent an unrecognised diploid species from the Angustissimi clade sensu Mavrodiev et al. (Int. J. Pl. Sci. 164: 1 - 19, 2005), a clade with a centre of distribution in the Caucasus, and hybrids of this unknown species with T. orientalis or T. hayekii (= T. orientalis L. var. hayekii Soo), a species closely related to T. pratensis and native to Bohemia. The Bohemian population of "Tragopogon xmirabilis" clearly requires more investigation, but based on our data it does not appear to represent T. porrifolius x T. pratensis.
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