Lucía D Moreyra, Núria Garcia-Jacas, Cristina Roquet, Jennifer R Ackerfield, Turan Arabacı, Carme Blanco-Gavaldà, Christian Brochmann, Juan Antonio Calleja, Tuncay Dirmenci, Kazumi Fujikawa, Mercè Galbany-Casals, Tiangang Gao, Abel Gizaw, Javier López-Alvarado, Iraj Mehregan, Roser Vilatersana, Bayram Yıldız, Frederik Leliaert, Alexey P Seregin, Alfonso Susanna
The floras on the highest mountains in tropical eastern Africa are among the most unique floras in the world. Despite the exceptionally high concentration of endemic species, these floras remain understudied from an evolutionary point of view. In this study, we focus on the Carduus-Cirsium group (subtribe Carduinae) to unravel the evolutionary relationships of the species endemic to the tropical Afromontane and Afroalpine floras, aiming to improve the systematics of the group. We applied the Hyb-Seq approach using the Compositae1061 probe set on 190 samples (159 species), encompassing representatives of all genera of Carduinae...
August 28, 2023: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)