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Feulner, Martin ; Pointner, Stefan ; Heuss, Lisa ; Aas, Gregor ; Paule, Juraj ; Dötterl, Stefan:
Floral scent and its correlation with AFLP data in Sorbus.
In: Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
Vol. 14
(2014)
Issue 4
.
- pp. 339-348.
ISSN 1618-1077
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-014-0180-8
Abstract in another language
Comparisons between floral scent-based and DNA-molecular-based taxonomies are rare, yet such comparisons indicate that scent can provide useful taxonomic information. Here, we correlate the phytochemical differentiation in floral scent to the DNA-molecular-based differentiation in the genusSorbus. Inflorescence scent patterns of the apomictic andendemic Sorbus latifolia microspecies Sorbus franconica,Sorbus adeana, and Sorbus cordigastensis originated by hybridization as well as their parental taxa Sorbus aria agg. and Sorbus torminalis were investigated with the dynamic headspace method. The scent data (presence/absence of compounds)were used to construct an UPGMA tree, to calculate a similarity matrix, and to correlate them with the published amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data of the same individuals, populations, and taxa. Flow cytometry wasused to estimate the DNA-ploidy level of the taxa. Scent analyses showed a total of 68 substances, among them aromatic compounds, terpenoids, aliphatics, and nitrogencontaining compounds. The scent patterns were taxonspecific,and the number of scent components differed among taxa. The correlations with the published AFLP data on population and individual level are highly significant, indicating that the scent and AFLP data are highly congruent in the plants studied. Scent therefore provides useful taxonomic characters in Sorbus.