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Evoluce Vicia cracca L. - distribuce cytotypů, jejich genetická variabilita a růstové charakteristiky / Evolution of Vicia cracca L. - distribution of cytotypes, their genetic variation and growth traits

A lot of the research has been made in the field of plant polyploidy since the discovery of this phenomenon. However, the more we know, the more questions arise. Overall, the most insistent questions remain: How did the polyploids arise and become established? Is it advantageous to be polyploid? We chose a perennial herb Vicia cracca L. to study the causes and consequences of polyploidisation on microevolution of a diploid-tetraploid complex in central European conditions. First, evidence from both flow cytometry and molecular markers (allozymes, DNA sequences, microsatellites) confirmed a hypothesised autopolyploid origin of tetraploids. Based on allozymes, we proved that tetraploids are genetically richer than diploid ancestors. However, we showed that the conclusions depend on statistics used for genetic variation measurements. Nevertheless, tetraploids of V. cracca suffered lesser reduction in seed production after artificial selfing than diploids. We thus infer that they profit from multiple allele dosage, which can mask deleterious alleles. We also corroborated an existence of a central European contact zone of diploids and tetraploids and discovered two other contact zones in south-western and south- eastern Europe. The central European contact zone with several mixed-ploidy populations served us as...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:388823
Date January 2018
CreatorsEliášová, Anežka
ContributorsMünzbergová, Zuzana, Vallejo-Marin, Mario, Vašut, Radim Jan
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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