Intergeneric relationships in the Australian Vitaceae: new evidence from cpDNA analysis

Rossetto, Maurizio, Jackes, Betsy R., Scott, Kirsten D., and Henry, Robert J. (2001) Intergeneric relationships in the Australian Vitaceae: new evidence from cpDNA analysis. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 48 (3). pp. 307-314.

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Abstract

Taxa related to important agricultural species are likely to contain a considerable amount of potentially valuable genetic diversity. Nevertheless, before breeding programs or gene discovery projects can be initiated it is important to understand the phylogenetic relationships between the species involved. A component of a major gene discovery project in grapes at the Centre for Plant Conservation Genetics (Southern Cross University, Australia) is directed at the discovery of novel genes in native Vitaceae. As a result a study was conducted in order to assess the phylogenetic relationships between V. vinifera and the native members of the three major Australian genera: Cayratia, Cissus and Tetrastigma. CpDNA sequence analysis (from the trnL intron) adequately resolved intergeneric relationship between the majority of the species studied and provided some useful new information on the phylogenetic relationships within the Vitaceae. This preliminary project identified two species, C. hypoglauca and C. sterculiifolia, as being closely related to V. vinifera and worthy of further in-depth investigation.

Item ID: 13211
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1573-5109
Keywords: Cayratia; chloroplast DNA; Cissus; grapes; Tetrastigma; trnL (UAA)
Date Deposited: 30 Jul 2012 01:45
FoR Codes: 06 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 0603 Evolutionary Biology > 060399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences @ 100%
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