54urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:719A4407-6918-50E6-BCDF-A4165D76DC1EItalian BotanistIB2531-4033Pensoft Publishers10.3897/italianbotanist.3.1225712257Research ArticleAngiospermaeGeneticsPlant and habitat conservationSystematicsEuropeChromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 3PeruzziLorenzo1lorenzo.peruzzi@unipi.ithttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9008-273XAstutiGiovanni1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-3516BernardoLiliana2CartaAngelino1Marco D’Antraccoli1Roma-MarzioFrancesco1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2184-0311CastiglioneMonica Ruffini1Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa, Via Derna 1, 56126 Pisa, ItalyUniversità di PisaPisaItalyDipartimento DiBEST, Università della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza), ItalyUniversità della CalabriaArcavacata di Rende (Cosenza)Italy
Corresponding author: Lorenzo Peruzzi (lorenzo.peruzzi@unipi.it)
Academic editor: G. Domina
201727022017316FFC3F133-FFD1-FFDE-DD7F-FFAFFFF1FFE111399971302201718022017Lorenzo Peruzzi, Giovanni Astuti, Liliana Bernardo, Angelino Carta, Marco D'Antraccoli, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Monica Ruffini CastiglioneThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In this contribution new chromosome data obtained from material collected in Italy are presented. It includes four chromosome counts for the following genera: Bellevalia (Asparagaceae), Genista (Fabaceae), Linaria (Plantaginaceae), and Teucrium (Lamiaceae).
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Peruzzi L, Astuti G, Bernardo L, Carta A, D’Antraccoli M, Francesco Roma-Marzio F, Ruffini Castiglione M (2017) Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 3. Italian Botanist 3: 1–6. doi: 10.3897/italianbotanist.3.12257
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Texts concerning new chromosome data should be submitted electronically to Lorenzo Peruzzi (lorenzo.peruzzi@unipi.it), including indications of voucher specimens and methods used.
Bellevaliawebbiana Parl., 2n = 16. Metaphasic plate and haploid idiogram. Scale bar: 10 μm.
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Voucher specimen. ITALY. Emilia-Romagna. Località Pergola, nei terreni dell’azienda agricola Lombardi (Faenza, Ravenna); margine di bosco mesofilo nei pressi di un oliveto, 144 m, 31 March 2016, F. Roma-Marzio, G. Astuti (PI).
Method. Squash preparations were made on root tips obtained from cultivated bulbs. Root tips were pre-treated with 0.4% colchicine for 3 hours and then fixed in Carnoy fixative solution for 1 hour. After hydrolysis in 1N HCl at 60° C, the tips were stained in leuco-basic fuchsin. For karyotype reconstruction, four metapahasic plates were measured the KaryoType software (Altinordu et al. 2016), which was also used to match homologous chromosomes among plates and to build a mean haploid idiogram. Karyotype asymmetry was evaluated according to the parameters suggested by Peruzzi and Eroğlu (2013).
Observations.Bellevaliawebbiana is a species endemic to a pre-Apennine belt between the administrative regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, where it occurs in the hills around Florence and Faenza, respectively (Gestri et al. 2010). This species is known to be tetraploid, possibly arisen from allopolyploidy (Borzatti von Loewenstern et al. 2013). However, chromosome counts were available for Tuscan populations only (Chiarugi 1949, Capineri et al. 1979, Maggini 1972) and no data for populations occurring in Romagna were reported so far. Hence, our count is the first for B.webbiana in this region and confirms the tetraploid asset of the species. The reconstructed karyotype (Fig. 1) and, consequently, the asymmetry indices, i.e., CVCL = 29.72 and MCA = 31.08, are also fully congruent with those available in the literature for Tuscan accessions (Chiarugi 1949, Maggini 1972, Borzatti von Loewenstern et al. 2013).
Voucher specimen. ITALY. Basilicata. Pollino Massif, Piano di Ruggio, 1 August 2016, L. Bernardo, L. Peruzzi (seeds collected in the field only; a specimen from the same locality, collected on 13 June 2013 by L. Bernardo, D. Gargano, is conserved in CLU n. 23782).
Method. Squash preparations were made on root tips obtained from germinating seeds. Root tips were pre-treated with 0.4% colchicine for 3 hours and then fixed in Carnoy fixative solution for 1 hour. After hydrolysis in 1N HCl at 60° C, the tips were stained in leuco-basic fuchsin.
Observations.Genistatenorei is endemic to Italy, limited to the Pollino Massif and belonging to the complex of G.tinctoria L. Genistatenorei is morphologically very similar to the SE European G.depressa M.Bieb. (Bernardo and Peruzzi 2016). This is the first chromosome count for this species. Instead, for G.depressa a single 2n = 48 count is available (Papanicolau 1984). Accordingly, our count seems to support the hypothesis of G.tenorei as a distinct species with respect to G.depressa. While 2n = 48 is reported for several Italian localities of the related G.tinctoria, reports with 2n = 96 chromosomes have also been published for this species from NW Italy (Forissier 1973, Cusma Velari et al. 2006) and Turkey (Esra et al. 2009).
Linariapurpurea (L.) Mill., 2n = 12. Scale bar: 10 μm.
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Voucher specimen. ITALY. Tuscany. Monte Calvi, (Livorno), near Villa Lanzi, 250–300 m, 22 May 2016, D. Fontana (seeds collected in the field only; a specimen from the same area, collected on 5 June 2010 by L. Peruzzi, G. Gestri, B. Pierini, V. Lazzeri, is conserved in PI).
Method. Squash preparations were made on root tips obtained from germinating seeds. Root tips were pre-treated with 0.4% colchicine for 3 hours and then fixed in Carnoy fixative solution for 1 hour. After hydrolysis in 1N HCl at 60° C, the tips were stained in leuco-basic fuchsin.
Observations.Linariapurpurea is an endemic Italian species ranging from Emilia-Romagna to Calabria and Sicily (Peruzzi et al. 2014). Our chromosome count is the first from Tuscany and is in accord with all the previous counts derived from populations occurring in Sicily, Calabria and Umbria (Bedini et al. 2010 onwards).
TeucriumflavumL.subsp.flavum, 2n = 32. Scale bar: 10 μm.
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Voucher specimen. ITALY. Toscana. Calignaia (Livorno), nella macchia, 57 m, 29 June 2016, F. Roma-Marzio (PI, Herb. Roma-Marzio).
Method. Squash preparations were made on root tips obtained from germinating seeds. Root tips were pre-treated with 0.4% colchicine for 3 hours and then fixed in Carnoy fixative solution for 1 hour. After hydrolysis in 1N HCl at 60° C, the tips were stained in leuco-basic fuchsin.
Observations.Teucriumflavum is an evergreen woody shrub whose range extends over the entire Mediterranean Basin, from the eastern coasts of Spain to Turkey (Lakušić et al. 2006). Teucriumflavum belongs to T.sect.Chamaedrys (Mill.) Schreb., including four subspecific taxa (Euro+Med 2006 onwards). The species within that section show different chromosome numbers, ranging from 2n = 28 to 2n = 96 (Özcan et al. 2015). However, all the previous counts for T.flavum report 2n = 32 (Rice et al. 2014, Özcan et al. 2015). In Italy, only two counts are currently known, from populations occurring in Sicily and Latium (Bedini et al. 2010 onwards). Our count is the first for Tuscany and confirms the only known chromosome number reported for the species.
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Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support by “Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo” (PRA) of the University of Pisa, grant number PRA_2016_1, for the chromosome count of Bellevaliawebbiana.
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