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PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
Volume 232, Issue 3-4, Pages 155-166Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s006060200039
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Solanaceae; Datura; genetic diversity; genetic distance; isozymes; taxonomy
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Fifty natural Datura populations, belonging to eleven species (D. ceratocaula. D. discolor. D. inoxia, D. kymatocarpa. D. lanosa, D. metel D. pruinosa, D. quereifolia, D. reburra. D. stramonium, D, wrightii) from Mexico and adjacent USA. were investigated using starch gel electrophoresis. A total of 64 alleles were scored at 17 loci (DIA1. DIA2, GOT1, GOT2, G6PDH. IDH, MDH1. MDH2, MDH3, ME, PGD1. PGD2, PGM1 PGM2, PHI, SAD, SOD). The heterozygosity among the species ranged from 0.166 (D. ceratocaula) to 0.276 (D. wrightii). Most genetic diversity was found within populations (average H-s = 0.242), while values between Populations are relatively low (average Dst = 0.066, Gst = 0.171). The analysis of the genetic distance suggested new taxonomic relationships among the species, Rather than supporting the conventional infrageneric classification with three sections, the results revealed that the herbaceous members of the genus Datura form four groups. One group included four of the eight species of the section Dutra and was more similar to the section Ceratocaulis than it was to the other group that contained the remaining taxa of Dutra.
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