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Phylogenetic significance of stylar features in genus Vicia (Leguminosae): an analysis with molecular phylogeny

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Tribe Fabeae consists of five genera, Lathyrus (160 spp.), Lens (4–6 spp.), Pisum (2–3 spp.), Vavilovia (monotypic), and Vicia (160 spp.), and shows a diversity in stylar features. At least six different stylar types are known in the tribe. In order to reclassify the tribe at the rank of genus, we tried to discover apomorphies in stylar features using a molecular phylogenetic study. We surveyed internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA of representative species, selected from each group having different types of styles in the tribe. We paid particular attention in sampling to members of Vicia section Vicilla, as stylar features are heterogeneous within this section. Consequently, our sample set included 15 species of section Vicilla, 23 species of other Fabeae, and two species of Trifolieae, which were used as a sister group of Fabeae. Based on our analysis, we found that a laterally compressed style and an abaxially tufted hairy style would be advanced against a dorsiventrally compressed style and an evenly hairy style, respectively, in genus Vicia. The species group, which shares the latter apomorphy, is composed of 56 species and was dispersed into 11 sections of two subgenera in the recent system of genus Vicia. We consider future revision of Fabeae should treat this species group as a single higher taxon.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Sun-Gyo Kwon, Ji-Yeon Lee (Inha University, Korea), and Daisuke Kakinuma (Ibaraki University, Japan) for laboratory assistance; Kenichi Ohno (Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Japan) and Yu Iokawa (Joetsu University of Education, Japan) for their help in obtaining materials. We also thank Gregory Kenicer (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK) for suggestions and linguistic correction of our manuscript. This work was partly supported by the Core Environmental Technology Development Project for the Next Generation (03-1-05-2-011) to B.H.C., grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (B) (15405013) to Y.E. from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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  1. Department of Biology, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea

    Byoung-Hee Choi

  2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Dong-Im Seok

  3. The College of Science, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo 2-1-1, Mito, 310-8512, Japan

    Yasuhiko Endo

  4. Herbarium (TUS), Botanical Garden, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Hiroyoshi Ohashi

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Choi, BH., Seok, DI., Endo, Y. et al. Phylogenetic significance of stylar features in genus Vicia (Leguminosae): an analysis with molecular phylogeny. J Plant Res 119, 513–523 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-006-0015-6

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