Plant diversity and evolution in polyploid, dysploid and hybrid complexes of the Mediterranean flora

Plant diversity and evolution in polyploid, dysploid and hybrid complexes of the Mediterranean flora

Symposium organizers: Lorenzo Peruzzi & Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev

PROGRAMME

1) Introduction

2) Zahra Nemati, Dörte Harpke, Frank R. Blattner: Greece, Home of Saffron – Progenitor, Areas, and Consequences of Triploidy.

3) Giovanni Astuti, Lijuan Liu, Andrea Coppi, Lorenzo Peruzzi: Different chromosome numbers, but slight morphological differentiation and genetic admixture among populations of Pulmonaria hirta complex.

4) Perla Farhat, Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat, Robert Adams, Robert Thierry, Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev: Polyploidy and hybridization as the main evolutionary driving forces of Juniperus sabina in its Mediterranean range.

5) Angela Peterson, Dörte Harpke: The Mediterannean basin as secondary speciation centre of Gagea.

6) Flavia Domizia Nardi, Henar Alonso-Marcos, Karl Hülber, Andreas Tribsch, Christoph Dobeš: How ploidy level and mating system influence the ecogeography of amphi-apomictic Potentilla puberula (Rosaceae).