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Volume 4, Issue 3 (Suppl) Adv Crop Sci Tech
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Plant Genomics 2016
July 14-15, 2016
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July 14-15, 2016 Brisbane, Australia
4th International Conference on Plant Genomics
Phylogenic analysis of genera Bellevalia, Leopoldia, Muscari and Pseudomuscari species
(Hyacinthaceae) in Iran based on four plastid DNA regions
Azarnoosh Jafari 1, Jamil Vaezi 2, Mohammad Mahdi Forghanifard3, Mohammad Farsi4, Maryam Behroozian2 and Felix Forest5
1Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
2Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damghan, Iran
4Ferdowsi university of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
5Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
In the present research, a phylogenetic study of the Iranian species of Bellevalia, Leopoldia, Muscari and Pseudomuscari (tribe
Hyacinthaceae, Asparagaceae) was performed based on the plastid regions rbcL, matK, trnL intron and trnL-F spacer. The
four sections of genus Bellevalia i.e. Nutans, Patens, Conica and Oxydonta are found in Iran. Traditionally, flower colour and
shape, the ratio of leaf to scape length were used to delimit sections, subsections and species, while an overlap in these features
was sometime observed and flower color and shape change in fresh and dried specimen. Regarding Muscari, Davis and Stuart
believed that Pseudomuscari and Leopoldia were subgenera of this genus while Garbari and Greuter treated them as distinct
genera. These three genera are distinguished based on flower color, shape and throat contraction. Leopoldia is similar to
Bellevalia and Muscari is similar to Pseudomuscari. So, in order to determine the exact circumscription of sections and genera,
a phylogenetic analysis based on four plastid DNA regions was performed. For this 91 specimens including Hyacinthus as out
group taxon were evaluated. The results showed that Bellevalia is a monophyletic clade but that its sections are not. Also, some
Leopoldia species are placed in the Muscari clade. Moreover the two possible positions of Muscari and Leopoldia shown here
can be explained by hybridization between these two genera. Thus, based on these results, Leopoldia could be considered as an
infrageneric rank of Muscari. Since, no decisive point was observed in genera and sections circumscription, it is recommended
that this molecular analysis is expanded to investigate further the relationships among species of Hyacinthaceae in Iran.
Biography
Azarnoosh Jafari has completed her PhD in 2004 from Research and Sciences of Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University. She is the Director of the project and
she has published more than 50 papers in English and Persian.
Azarnoosh Jafari et al., Adv Crop Sci Tech 2016, 4:3 (Suppl)