Cuiping Guan, Xiang Li, Wenlan Mu, Hong Mu, Shujuan Yang
{"title":"Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of a unique economic plant <i>Lycium barbarum</i> L.","authors":"Cuiping Guan, Xiang Li, Wenlan Mu, Hong Mu, Shujuan Yang","doi":"10.5586/asbp/170979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/170979","url":null,"abstract":"Lycium barbarum L. (L. barbarum), an important medicinal and food crop from the Solanaceae family, is known for excellent tolerance to saline–alkaline and drought stresses. Therefore, it has significant research and application value. The nuclear and chloroplast genomes of L. barbarum have been previously reported; however, its mitochondrial genome is still unexplored. In this study, mitochondrial DNA sequencing and assembly in L. barbarum were studied via second- and third-generation sequencing technologies using the anthers collected from the main cultivars “Ningqi No.1” (fertile line) and its male-sterile natural mutant “Ningqi No.5” from Ningxia, China. The results revealed that “Ningqi No.1” and “Ningqi No.5” have the same mitochondrial circular genome structure with a total length of 413,881 bp. In total, 61 genes were annotated, including 35 protein-coding genes, four rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and 2,242 open reading frames with unknown functions. The repeat sequences in mtDNA were analyzed, in which short repeats (30–59 bp) exhibited the highest number. Overall, 23 protein-coding genes in “Ningqi No.1” and “Ningqi No.5” exhibited RNA-editing phenomenon, with different RNA-editing site number and distribution position. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that L. barbarum has the closest relationship with Hyoscyamus niger. These results provided a basis for a comprehensive understanding of the mitochondrial genome of L. barbarum and the relevant data for omics studies on L. barbarum.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135969087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ewa Szczęśniak, Edyta M. Gola, Wojciech J. Szypuła
{"title":"The genus <i>Selaginella</i> P. BEAUV. (Selaginellaceae, Lycopodiopsida) in Poland: The occurrence of three species as a result of the historical material verification","authors":"Ewa Szczęśniak, Edyta M. Gola, Wojciech J. Szypuła","doi":"10.5586/asbp/171688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/171688","url":null,"abstract":"Two species of the <i>Selaginella</i> genus were noted in Poland up to date, i.e. <i>S. selaginoides</i> and <i>S. helvetica</i>. The first species occurs in the Western Carpathians and the Western Sudetes, however, its Sudeten sites were less numerous than previously reported. The second species was one of the rarest elements in Polish flora. Two populations were reported in Silesia (SW Poland), but after 1945 the species was not confirmed in the nature and thus currently it is regarded in Poland as extinct. Its occurrence and locations were given in the literature based on the historical sources, yet without revision of herbarium materials. Our research on <i>Selaginella</i> vouchers, collected from the sites in Silesia and primarily identified as <i>S. helvetica</i>, showed that only one population represented <i>S. helvetica</i>, whereas the second one was identified by us as an alien American species, <i>S. apoda</i>. This is the first record of S. apoda occurrence in Poland out of cultivation, and the second in Europe. Accordingly, corrected maps of <i>S. selaginoides</i>, <i>S. helvetica</i> and <i>S. apoda</i> distribution in Poland together with the identification key to the species are presented.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136098132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Miroslav Zeidler, Václav Husek, Marek Banaš, František Krahulec
{"title":"Homogenization and species compositional shifts in subalpine vegetation during the 60-year period","authors":"Miroslav Zeidler, Václav Husek, Marek Banaš, František Krahulec","doi":"10.5586/asbp/171689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/171689","url":null,"abstract":"Subalpine and alpine plant communities are considered highly sensitive and hence endangered by global changes. In central Europe, the highly sensitive habitats are also influenced by human activities: land use, industrial pollution, and tourism. That is especially true for subalpine plant communities formed on mid-latitude mountains during specific postglacial development. Our study aimed to (1) document changes in cover and plant species diversity between the past (1950s and 1970s) and present (2019) and (2) reveal differences in the functional composition of the species among the studied periods. In 2019, quasi-permanent marked plots originally surveyed in the 1950s and 1970s were resurveyed at Králický Sněžník (Śnieżnik Kłodski) Mountains, the High Sudetes Mts.. We assessed temporal changes in plant species composition, species cover, functional groups, growth forms, and degree of specialization. We found homogenization of the vegetation over time and changes in the cover of specific functional groups that were attributed to environmental factors connected with the cessation of historical land use, atmospheric deposition, and climate change. Implementing a suitable combination of mowing and grazing to support diversity, and to prevent homogenization of vegetation is highly recommended.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135592162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Łukasz Grewling, Dorota Myszkowska, Krystyna Piotrowska-Weryszko, Aneta Sulborska-Różycka, Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska
{"title":"Aerobiology in Poland: Achievements and challenges","authors":"Łukasz Grewling, Dorota Myszkowska, Krystyna Piotrowska-Weryszko, Aneta Sulborska-Różycka, Elżbieta Weryszko-Chmielewska","doi":"10.5586/asbp/172278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/172278","url":null,"abstract":"Aerobiology is a scientific discipline that focuses on investigating biological particles (bioaerosols) passively transported in the atmosphere, mainly fungal spores and pollen grains. Due to the allergic and pathogenic properties of these particles, aerobiological data is widely used in allergology, plant pathology, and agriculture. In addition, the results of aerobiological monitoring have found applications in biogeography, paleoecology, forestry, veterinary medicine, forensic science, and climate change research, as well as in the assessment of threats to the deterioration of cultural heritage. In this review, the contribution of Polish scientists to the development of worldwide aerobiology is presented. The most important results on the atmospheric dispersion of bioaerosols, spatiotemporal modeling, and novel methods used in aerobiological research are described. Moreover, the cooperation at the national and international levels as part of scientific programs and the perspectives for further development of aerobiology in Poland are discussed.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135243674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plants for saving the environment- Phytoremediation","authors":"Gawroński Stanisław","doi":"10.5586/asbp/171278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/171278","url":null,"abstract":"A large part of the civilizational progress has been achieved at the expense of the natural environment, which recently reached the stages that threaten its creator. Plants play an important role in various areas of our lives, and it turned out that we can rely on them to reduce this threat. The ability of living organisms and the systems they create to protect and restore the environment is at the core of a technology called environmental biotechnology. Advances in science and technology have created a plant-based discipline known as phytoremediation. This technology allows us to remove or reduce the level of pollutants in our surroundings. We can phytoextract heavy metals from contaminated soil and water with the help of resistant plant species and recover noble metals and rare elements. When the soil or water is contaminated with organic compounds, we try to eliminate them completely with the help of plants and their microbiome. Phytoextraction from water is related to the accumulation of pollutants in water and sediments, in which macrophytes from all water groups participate, including free-floating submerged and emerged plants. The task of these plants, apart from the accumulation of metals or organic toxins, is also the uptake of phosphorus and nitrogen to prevent the eutrophication of water. In recent years, the quality of air has deteriorated. Nowadays, 90% of the population breathes air that does not meet WHO standards. It should be emphasized that in the case of outdoor air, there is no industrial system for removing pollutants. In fact, we can only count on nature: rainfall and plants. Indoor air is sometimes even more polluted than outside and, therefore, we should be safe in it with the help of plants that are able to create a refuge. Additionally, it fulfills biofilling desires and improves our mood.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jakub Sawicki, Katarzyna Krawczyk, Mateusz Kurzyński, Mateusz Maździarz, Łukasz Paukszto, Paweł Sulima, Monika Szczecińska
{"title":"Nanopore sequencing of organellar genomes revealed heteroplasmy in simple thalloid and leafy liverworts","authors":"Jakub Sawicki, Katarzyna Krawczyk, Mateusz Kurzyński, Mateusz Maździarz, Łukasz Paukszto, Paweł Sulima, Monika Szczecińska","doi":"10.5586/asbp/172516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/172516","url":null,"abstract":"Membrane-bound organelles, such as mitochondria and chloroplasts, have played a crucial role in the evolution of plant cells. In this study, we investigate the presence of heteroplasmy and genomic variation in liverworts, a group of non-vascular plants, using nanopore sequencing technology. We selected four liverwort species representing different lineages: Riccia fluitans, Apopellia endiviifolia, Aneura pinguis, and Scapania undulata. Through nanopore sequencing, we sequenced, assembled, and annotated the organellar genomes of selected liverwort species. The plastid genomes of Riccia fluitans, Apopellia endiviifolia, Aneura pinguis, and Scapania undulata exhibited high conservation with previously published genomes, while the mitogenome of Scapania undulata represents the first report for this species. The analysis of the liverwort organellar genomes revealed conserved gene content, structure, and order. We further investigated heteroplasmy within the liverwort species. The plastome analysis did not detect structural heteroplasmy, which is observed in some angiosperms but seems limited to seed plants. However, in the mitogenomes, we found evidence of heteroplasmy in Aneura pinguis, Apopellia endiviifolia, and Scapania undulata. The heteroplasmic sites in the mitogenomes were mainly represented by substitutions, indels, and short tandem repeat polymorphisms. Some of the identified substitutions resembled RNA editing patterns observed in liverworts. This study highlights the utility of nanopore sequencing for studying organellar genomes and detecting heteroplasmy in liverworts. The findings expand our understanding of organellar genomic variation in non-vascular plants and provide insights into the mechanisms underlying heteroplasmy in liverwort mitogenomes. Further research is needed to explore the functional significance of heteroplasmy and its implications for liverwort evolution and adaptation.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135110628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grzegorz Swacha, Sebastian Świerszcz, Sylwia Nowak, Marcin Nobis, Arkadiusz Nowak
{"title":"Classification of alpine grasslands in the western Tian Shan Mountains (Kyrgyzstan, Middle Asia)","authors":"Grzegorz Swacha, Sebastian Świerszcz, Sylwia Nowak, Marcin Nobis, Arkadiusz Nowak","doi":"10.5586/asbp/169036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/169036","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the first syntaxonomic classification of alpine grasslands in the western Tian Shan Mountains (Kyrgyzstan) with some remarks on its environmental gradients. A total of 251 relevés were sampled in 2015-2022 using the seven-degree cover-abundance scale of the Braun-Blanquet approach. These were classified using the agglomerative hierarchical Ward’s method employing the Euclidean distance measure. Diagnostic species were identified using the phi coefficient as a fidelity measure. NMDS was used to explore the relationships between the distinguished groups. Our classification revealed 13 ecologically meaningful clusters corresponding to 12 associations and one rankless unit of alpine grasslands in Middle Asia. The new communities have been included in three new alliances: Aconito rotundifolii-Potentillion pamiroalaicae – subalpine and alpine mesic forb meadows and pastures in the western Tian Shan and shrubby subalpine chionophilous heaths of Middle Asia, Stipo regelianae-Ptilagrostion malyschevii – Kobresia mats and Artemision dracunculi – subalpine forb steppe vegetation. The main climatic factors differentiating the species composition of the researched vegetation are temperature seasonality, mean diurnal temperature range and a sum of annual precipitation. Among the soil factors the most important are pH, cation exchange capacity and nitrogen availability. Our study has expanded the knowledge of the alpine grasslands on the borderland between vegetation influenced by Irano-Turanian climate in Pamir-Alai and grassland vegetation of the alpine belt in Tian Shan. Their final classification certainly still requires further studies and comparisons, especially with the Alpine grasslands in the Altai region and some of the vegetation units closely related to Karakorum-Himalayan ranges.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135879955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Jopek, G. Wiegleb, W. Babik, J. Zalewska-Gałosz
{"title":"Ranunculus dahlgreniae (section Batrachium, Ranunculaceae), a new species from Crete, Greece, with remarks on taxonomy and phylogenetic relations within the section","authors":"M. Jopek, G. Wiegleb, W. Babik, J. Zalewska-Gałosz","doi":"10.5586/asbp/167462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/167462","url":null,"abstract":"A new species, Ranunculus dahlgreniae, is described from a seasonal lake at Omalos Plateau, Lefka Ori Mountains, western Crete, Greece. The heterophyllous species resembles R. saniculifolius, R. peltatus, and the Mediterranean forms of R. baudotii. It differs from the aforementioned species by a combination of characters not found in any of them, i.e., 5–6 mm long petals, up to 2.2 mm long, glabrous achenes with a partly persistent style, a densely pubescent, in fruit slightly elongating receptacle, and intermediate leaves with rigid filiform apical segments, being divided into two or three cuneate, shortly petiolate leaflets. A key to all similar East Mediterranean taxa is presented. DNA analyses based on the sequencing of nuclear, ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS), and two chloroplast noncoding regions (rpl32-trnL and psbE-petL), complemented by the analysis of genome-wide polymorphism using double digest RAD Sequencing (ddRADseq) supported that Ranunculus dahlgreniae is a distinct lineage, clearly separated from R. peltatus, R. baudotii, and R. saniculifolius. The phylogeny based on ddRADseq resembles the topologies obtained from chloroplast and nrITS data but with increasing resolution and support of fine-scale relationships. Extensive sampling, including taxa from temperate Europe and the West Mediterranean area, as well as the application of reduced-representation sequencing, allowed to better\u0000understand the pattern of diversity in the section Batrachium.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47249431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abiotic factors determine the root system architecture – review and update","authors":"Ewa Młodzińska-Michta","doi":"10.5586/asbp/168700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/168700","url":null,"abstract":"Decades of root research have led to a deep understanding of the molecular and genetic mechanisms regulating root system architecture. This review provides past and present-day root research with a focus on abiotic factors, such as nutrient limitation, excess of nutrients, water, salinity, temperature, light, selected heavy metals, and hazardous contaminations which affected primary and lateral root growth. It also briefly summarized current knowledge about the molecular machinery involved in the modulation of RSA of the modern root system of dicot species, such as Arabidopsis thaliana.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45418269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Mg on chlorophyll degradation and leaf chroma during the airing of cigar tobacco leaves","authors":"Yuexian Yang, Q. Fu, Chunlei Yang, Xiongfei Rao, Zhekuan Wu, Zuju Wu, Jun Fan, Zhen Yu","doi":"10.5586/asbp/168235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5586/asbp/168235","url":null,"abstract":"Magnesium (Mg) is the central atom of the chlorophyll porphyrin ring and plays an important role in the degradation of chlorophyll. In this study, the Mg contents in cigar tobacco leaves (Folium cigarum) under different fertilization (no (CK), NPK (NPK), and NPK+MgO (NKP+Mg)) were investigated by a field experiment, and the effects of Mg in cigar tobacco leaves on the chlorophyll degradation and leaf chroma during airing period were analyzed. The results showed that the application of Mg fertilization significantly increased Mg contents in cigar tobacco leaves. The chromaticity values (luminance value L*, red-green value a*, yellow-blue value b*, and total color difference value ΔE) of cigar tobacco leaves in NPK+Mg treatment were lower than other treatments during the airing. The contents of chlorophyll a (Chl a), chlorophyll b (Chl b), and total chlorophyll (TC) were decreased rapidly in the first eight airing days, and the decreasing trend of total chlorophyll/carotenoid (TC/Car) was more smoothly in NPK+Mg treatment than other treatments. The chromaticity values (L*, a*, b*, ΔE) were extremely significantly negatively correlated with pigment contents (Chl a, Chl b, TC, Car), which indicated that the leaf color was determined by the pigment contents. The activities of pheophytin pheophorbide hydrolase (PPH) in NPK+Mg treatment were the highest, while the activities of chlorophyllase (CLH) had no significant difference among the three treatments. The PPH activities were extremely significantly positively correlated with pigment contents (Chl a, Chl b, TC, Car), and significantly negatively correlated with ΔE values, but the CLH activities were not correlated with pigment contents and ΔE. Therefore, the application of Mg fertilizer was beneficial to chlorophyll degradation by increasing the PPH activities of cigar tobacco leaves, and then it regulated the formation of leaf color.","PeriodicalId":7157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45952623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}