Plant Diversity ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 343-347.DOI: 10.7677/ynzwyj201313052

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Germplasm Collection and Preservation of Orinus (Poaceae) in the QinghaiTibet Plateau

 SU  Xu-1、2, YUE  Wei-1, LIU  Jian-Quan-1   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Grassland AgroEcosystem, School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    2 Key Laboratory of Education Ministry of Environments and Resources in Tibetan Plateau, School of Geography
    and Life Science, Qinghai Normal University, Xining 810008, China
  • Received:2013-03-19 Online:2013-05-25 Published:2013-03-26
  • Supported by:

    科技部科技基础性工作专项重点项目 (2007FY110100)和国家自然科学基金项目 (31260052)

Abstract:

 Orinus is an alpine genus with important values in the grass family (Poaceae). All six species recognized within this genus are distributed in the QinghaiTibet Plateau. In the past five years, we surveyed the distributions of each species in this region and collected germplasm resources, including seeds, DNA and specimens. We further used the ITS sequence variation to tentatively delimit the previously acknowledged species and found that there is no distinct boundary between species and only two distinct lineages were recognized for all six species, indicating that some species should not be treated as separate species. These data provide an important resource for further utilizing and studying this genus.

Key words: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Orinus, Germplasms, Species Delimitation

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