葱属根茎组8种21居群植物的核型研究-植物分类学报.PDFVIP

植 物 分 类 学 报 45 (2): 207–216 (2007) doi:10.1360/aps06023 Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 葱属根茎组8种21居群植物的核型研究 * 周颂东 何兴金 余 岩 许介眉 ( 四川大学生命科学学院 成都 610064) Karyotype studies on twenty-one populations of eight species in Allium section Rhiziridium * ZHOU Song-Dong HE Xing-Jin YU Yan XU Jie-Mei (College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China) Abstract In this paper, karyotypes from twenty-one populations in eight species of Allium section Rhiziridium from China were investigated. The karyotypes of two species, A. eduardii and A. flavovirens , and the hexaploidy karyotype of A. strictum are reported for the first time. By studying karyotypes of this section in Allium , we hope to understand evolutionary mechanisms and relationships among the taxa in this section. We find that five species, A. eduardii, A. flavovirens , A. lineare , A. mongolicum and A. oreoprasum are diploid, and that their karyotypes are the 2A type of Stebbins. The two species, A. tuberosum and A. ramosum , are tetraploid and their karyotypes are also the 2A type. Four populations of the species A. strictum are hexaploid and their karyotypes are the 2B type. From the karyotype analysis we obtain the following results: (1) In this section, there are many polyploids and polyploid series. The variation in the chromosome number in this section is closely related to the evolution history of the species. Therefore polyploidization might be one of the important evolutionary