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First Glimpse on Spring Starflower Domestication.


ABSTRACT: The cultivation and domestication of plants are human-driven processes that change the biology and attributes of a plant. Ipheion uniflorum is a bulbous geophyte known as Spring Starflower whose cultivation dates back to the first half of the 19th century. At least seven cultivars have been developed from natural stands. However, comparative analyses of wild and cultivated materials are largely missing. In the present study, we provide a morphological evaluation and analyses of the cytological and genetic variability of I. uniflorum that reveal significant levels of differentiation and evidence of artificial selection in the Spring Starflower. Distinctive phenotypic characters in cultivated materials that are rarely found or lacking in wild plants and natural populations, such as pink or violet flowers, together with its reduced heterozygosity and starting genetic differentiation support the view of early mechanisms of domestication acting upon Spring Starflower plants. The probable geographic origin of the cultivated forms is discussed together with perspectives for plant breeding.

SUBMITTER: Sassone AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8872604 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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First Glimpse on Spring Starflower Domestication.

Sassone Agostina B AB   Blattner Frank R FR   Giussani Liliana M LM   Hojsgaard Diego H DH  

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The cultivation and domestication of plants are human-driven processes that change the biology and attributes of a plant. <i>Ipheion uniflorum</i> is a bulbous geophyte known as Spring Starflower whose cultivation dates back to the first half of the 19th century. At least seven cultivars have been developed from natural stands. However, comparative analyses of wild and cultivated materials are largely missing. In the present study, we provide a morphological evaluation and analyses of the cytolo  ...[more]

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