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ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE
Volume 63, Issue 3, Pages 267-274Publisher
SPRINGER FRANCE
DOI: 10.1051/forest:2006005
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Pinus; heterochromatin; fluorochrome banding; G-C and A-T rich DNA; interspecific differentiation
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Two tertiary relict pines, Pinus heldreichii and P. nigra, have been considered as taxonomically very close species. Both species have very discontinuous geographical distributions which overlap in some localities in Balkan Peninsula. The pattern of heterochromatin regions distribution (AT-, GC-rich and DAPI positive heterochromatin) and activity of nucleolar organizing regions (NORs) were analyzed for these two pines by fluorochrome banding and silver staining respectively. Morphometric data for karyotype of P. heldreichii were presented here for the first time. Chromomycin (CMA) banding pattern was particularly species specific, P. heldreichii possessed 12 and P. nigra 24 bands. In comparison with other species from subsection Pinus, P. heldreichii displayed particular CMA-banding pattern. Hoechst banding was less specific and similar to other pines. DAPI staining was applied after DNA denaturation/renaturation and revealed important differences in number and position of bands between the two species. Number of secondary constrictions (SCs), of NORs and of nucleoli also differed between P. heldreichii (10) and P. nigra (12). Our results proved a clear interspecific differentiation at the chromosomal level between the two species and add some data to discuss about the possible new subsectional placement of P. heldreichii.
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