@article{Koohdar_Sheidai_2020, title={Biosystematic study of the genus Lallemantia (Lamiaceae): species delimitation and relationship}, volume={63}, url={https://abs.bibl.u-szeged.hu/index.php/abs/article/view/3088}, DOI={10.14232/abs.2019.2.157-168}, abstractNote={<p><em> <span class="fontstyle0">Lallemantia </span></em><span class="fontstyle2">(Lamiaceae) is a small genus with 5 species. In general, little biosystematics and molecular study has been performed on the genus </span><em><span class="fontstyle0">Lallemantia</span></em><span class="fontstyle2">. Moreover, the studies used only some of the species; none of them has considered all 5 species as a whole in one specific approach. Therefore, the species inter-relationship or nexus in the genus is not thoroughly probed. The present study investigated the molecular phylogeny and species relationship of all five species in the genus </span><span class="fontstyle0">Lallemantia</span><span class="fontstyle2">, using ribosomal protein L16 and the multilocus ISSR markers. It also compared their morphometric, anatomical and seed results. The species were efficaciously delimited by the morphological, anatomical and seed characters, as well as by ISSR and cpDNA markers. The PCA (Principal components analysis) plot of the species based upon the morphological characters, the MDS (Multidimensional Scaling) plot of the species based on the nutlet and anatomical characters, the NJ (neighbor joining) tree plot of ISSR data<br>and the ML tree of cpDNA revealed closer affinity between </span><em><span class="fontstyle0">L. iberica </span></em><span class="fontstyle2">and </span><em><span class="fontstyle0">L. canescens </span></em><span class="fontstyle2">and </span><em><span class="fontstyle0">L. peltata </span></em><span class="fontstyle2">was placed at some distance from these species. The phylogenetic trees displayed monophyly of the genus </span><em><span class="fontstyle0">Lallemantia</span></em><span class="fontstyle2">. The Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis by Sampling Trees (BEAST) analysis unveiled that the studied </span><em><span class="fontstyle0">Lallemantia </span></em><span class="fontstyle2">species started to diverge about 25 million years ago.</span></p>}, number={2}, journal={Acta Biologica Szegediensis}, author={Koohdar, Fahimeh and Sheidai, Masoud}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={157–168} }