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Genetic diversity of Crocus antalyensis B. Mathew (Iridaceae) and a new subspecies from southern Anatolia

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Crocus antalyensis B. Mathew is a bulbous plant endemic to Turkey. It is morphologically variable within the western part of Anatolia. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) marker system was used to detect genetic variation among the Crocus taxa. Twenty-two primer combinations were used to screen for polymorphism among the samples. Genetic variation ranged from 0.44 to 0.69. We demonstrated the efficiency of the AFLP marker system for discriminating between individual C. antalyensis specimens. A high level of genetic variation was present among C. antalyensis specimens collected from different locations in Turkey. We also observed that C. antalyensis subspp. are genetically distinct from their relative Crocus flavus Haw. subsp. dissectus Baytop & B. Mathew. A new subspecies of C. antalyensis B. Mathew from southern Turkey is described. It is characterized by striped outer perianth segments, waist-shaped flowers, and glabrous throat of the perianth. A composite image of the new subspecies is presented.

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  1. SB: IU Alfred Heilbronn Botanical Garden accession number.

  2. This locality was labeled as Burdur erroneously in Erol et al. 2010.

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The first author appreciates Helmut Kerndorff and Eric Pasche for sharing of their knowledge of the genus Crocus. We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Neriman Ozhatay (ISTE) for her scientific advice. We also thank Mark Garland (Micanopy, Florida, USA) for Latin translation. This work was supported by the Research Fund of Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey (project number 4155). We also kindly thank the Turkish Research Council for supporting PhD student H. Betul Kaya’s scholarship (project number 108G096).

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Erol, O., Şik, L., Kaya, H.B. et al. Genetic diversity of Crocus antalyensis B. Mathew (Iridaceae) and a new subspecies from southern Anatolia. Plant Syst Evol 294, 281–287 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-011-0465-8

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