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The utility of chloroplast DNA variation for checking a recently proposed infrageneric classification of the genusAllium was tested. cpDNA restriction patterns of 49 species representing the main subgenera, sections, and subsections of the existing classification were compared. 363 different fragments generated by 4 restriction enzymes were identified and analysed by UPGMA clustering. The resulting phenogram largely confirms the subgeneric classification based on an integration of morphological and other methods.
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von Berg, G.L., Samoylov, A., Klaas, M. et al. Chloroplast DNA restriction analysis and the infrageneric grouping ofAllium (Alliaceae). Pl Syst Evol 200, 253–261 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00984939
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