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AlyBase: database of names, chromosome numbers, and ploidy levels of Alysseae (Brassicaceae), with a new generic concept of the tribe

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Database of published chromosome numbers and ploidy-level estimates of the tribe Alysseae is presented, together with the revised generic concept and the list of accepted names, to reflect the most recent taxonomic and phylogenetic studies in Alysseae. It is available on-line at www.alysseae.sav.sk. The tribe encompasses 24 genera and 277 species. Chromosome numbers and/or ploidy levels are known for 171 out of 297 recognized taxa. Of these, 95 (55.6 %) taxa are diploids, 43 (25.1 %) are polyploids, and 33 (19.3 %) involve both diploids and polyploids. The most common base chromosome number in the tribe is x = 8 and less frequent is x = 7. The highest variation in base chromosome numbers (x = 7, 8, 11, 15) is found in the genus Hormathophylla. A key to all genera and descriptions of the two new genera Cuprella and Resetnikia are presented. Many new nomenclatural combinations, mainly in the re-established Odontarrhena (77), are proposed.

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Acknowledgments

This study was financially supported by the Grant Agency VEGA, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (grant no. 2/0004/13 to K. Marhold) and by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0022) to S. Španiel, for which we are profoundly grateful. Participation of Dmitry A. German was supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, grant KO2302-13/1 within the framework of the priority research program “Adaptomics”, DFG-SSP 1529).

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    1. Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 23, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

      Stanislav Španiel, Matúš Kempa, Katarína Olšavská, Barbora Šingliarová, Judita Zozomová-Lihová & Karol Marhold

    2. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Benátská 2, 128 01, Prague, Czech Republic

      Stanislav Španiel & Karol Marhold

    3. Departamento de Biología y Geología, Universidad de Almería, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain

      Esteban Salmerón-Sánchez & Juan F. Mota

    4. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain

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    5. Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

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    6. Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 345, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

      Dmitry A. German

    7. South-Siberian Botanical Garden, Altai State University, Lenina str. 61, 656049, Barnaul, Russia

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    Španiel, S., Kempa, M., Salmerón-Sánchez, E. et al. AlyBase: database of names, chromosome numbers, and ploidy levels of Alysseae (Brassicaceae), with a new generic concept of the tribe. Plant Syst Evol 301, 2463–2491 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-015-1257-3

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