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Phylogeny of Linearia and Notata groups of Paspalum L. (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and related species

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Genus Paspalum L. comprises approximately 400 species worldwide and about 220 in Brazil. Paspalum is ecologically and economically important, and has been very useful as pasture. Traditionally, taxonomists use informal groups, most of which described by Agnes Chase in 1929. Some groups present a problematic circumscription, this is the case of the Linearia and Notata groups. This work uses a phylogenetic approach to study these groups and related species. DNA sequences from ITS of nuclear rRNA, from chloroplast intergenic spacer psbA-trnH and chloroplast trnL intron were used to perform the analyses. The informal groups studied were considered highly artificial, being the representatives from several informal groups splitted throughout the trees. Only a small core of species from Notata group could be accepted as a good formal clade.

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We thank Drs. José F. M. Valls and Regina C. de Oliveira for the plant accessions and information supplied, Drs. Sandro Bonatto, Maurício R. Bogo and Giancarlo Pasquali for the use of sequencing facilities, and anonymous reviewers for suggestions. We also thank the Genetics Department of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul as a whole, for the welcome and the exchange of experiences, with a special thank to Dr. Alessandra Selbach. FAPERGS and CNPq, Brazil, supported this work.

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Essi, L., de Souza-Chies, T.T. Phylogeny of Linearia and Notata groups of Paspalum L. (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and related species. Genet Resour Crop Evol 54, 779–791 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-006-9148-7

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