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The role and contribution of discriminating indicators of the corolla geometry of five cultural forms of flowered primrose (Primula × polyantha Mill.) in the phenotypic variation of primrose as a potential bioindicator were studied. The proposed set of the corolla’s geometric characteristics (the average rotational pseudosymmetry (η r ), the average bilateral pseudosymmetry (η b ), the irregularity index (I r ), and the projective cover index (I pc )) allows us to discriminate significantly between the cultural forms of flowered primrose. The major contribution to discrimination is made by the rotary index of pseudosymmetry (η r ).
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Original Russian Text © I.N. Markelov, D.B. Gelashvili, A.I. Shirokov, A.A. Nizhegorodtsev, 2014, published in Povolzhskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 2, pp. 236–245.
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Markelov, I.N., Gelashvili, D.B., Shirokov, A.I. et al. Prospects of using geometric indications of the corolla of the cultural forms of the flowered primrose Primula × polyantha Miller, 1768 (Primulaceae, Magnoliópsida) for bioindication purposes. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 42, 911–916 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359015100106
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