Orchid conservation: from theory to practice

RD Phillips, N Reiter, R Peakall - Annals of Botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Given the exceptional diversity of orchids (26 000+ species), improving
strategies for the conservation of orchids will benefit a vast number of taxa. Furthermore, with …

Application‐based guidelines for best practices in plant flow cytometry

E Sliwinska, J Loureiro, IJ Leitch, P Šmarda… - Cytometry Part …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flow cytometry (FCM) is currently the most widely‐used method to establish nuclear DNA
content in plants. Since simple, 1‐3‐parameter, flow cytometers, which are sufficient for most …

Ploidy‐specific symbiotic interactions: divergence of mycorrhizal fungi between cytotypes of the Gymnadenia conopsea group (Orchidaceae)

T Těšitelová, J Jersáková, M Roy, B Kubátová… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy is widely recognized as a major mechanism of sympatric speciation in plants, yet
little is known about its effects on interactions with other organisms. Mycorrhizal fungi are …

Challenges of flow‐cytometric estimation of nuclear genome size in orchids, a plant group with both whole‐genome and progressively partial endoreplication

P Trávníček, J Ponert, T Urfus, J Jersáková… - Cytometry Part …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear genome size is an inherited quantitative trait of eukaryotic organisms with both
practical and biological consequences. A detailed analysis of major families is a promising …

[PDF][PDF] Cytotype variation, cryptic diversity and hybridization in Ranunculus sect. Batrachium revealed by flow cytometry and chromosome numbers

J Prančl, P Koutecký, P Trávníček, V Jarolimova… - Preslia, 2018 - researchgate.net
Water-crowfoots (Ranunculus sect. Batrachium) are one of the taxonomically most intricate
groups of aquatic plants. Investigation of its species is complicated by morphological …

Are tetraploids more successful? Floral signals, reproductive success and floral isolation in mixed-ploidy populations of a terrestrial orchid

K Gross, FP Schiestl - Annals of botany, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Polyploidization, the doubling of chromosome sets, is
common in angiosperms and has a range of evolutionary consequences. Newly formed …

Cytotype coexistence leads to triploid hybrid production in a diploid–tetraploid contact zone of Chamerion angustifolium (Onagraceae)

HA Sabara, P Kron, BC Husband - American Journal of Botany, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Polyploids are often geographically segregated from their diploid
progenitors, but the extent of sympatry and the consequences for reproductive isolation and …

In situ morphometric survey elucidates the evolutionary systematics of the Eurasian Himantoglossum clade (Orchidaceae: Orchidinae)

RM Bateman, A Molnár, G Sramkó - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Background and Aims The charismatic Himantoglossum sl clade of Eurasian orchids
contains an unusually large proportion of taxa that are of controversial circumscriptions and …

Molecular and morphological phylogenetics of the digitate-tubered clade within subtribe Orchidinae ss (Orchidaceae: Orchideae)

RM Bateman, ARM Murphy, PM Hollingsworth, ML Hart… - Kew Bulletin, 2018 - Springer
The digitate-tubered clade (Dactylorhiza sl plus Gymnadenia sl) within subtribe Orchidinae
is an important element of the North-temperate orchid flora and has become a model system …

Genome Size as a Key to Evolutionary Complex Aquatic Plants: Polyploidy and Hybridization in Callitriche (Plantaginaceae)

J Prančl, Z Kaplan, P Trávníček, V Jarolímová - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Despite their complex evolutionary histories, aquatic plants are highly underrepresented in
contemporary biosystematic studies. Of them, the genus Callitriche is particularly interesting …