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Annals of Botany 87: 251-258, 2001
© 2001 Annals of Botany Company

First Nuclear DNA C-values for 25 Angiosperm Families

Lynda Hanson, Kathryn A. McMahon, Margaret A. T. Johnson and Michael D. Bennett+

Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3DS, UK

Received: 26 July 2000 ; Returned for revision: 2 September 2000 . Accepted: 27 October 2000

DNA amount is a widely used biodiversity character. As known DNA C-values represent the global angiosperm flora poorly, better coverage of taxonomic groups is needed, including at the familial level. A workshop, sponsored byAnnals of Botany , was held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1997. Its key aim was to identify major gaps in our knowledge of plant DNA C-values and recommend targets for new work to fill them by international collaboration. In 1997 C-values were known for approx. 150 families, meaning there was no estimate for most angiosperm families (approx 68%). The workshop recommended a goal of complete familial representation by 2002, as a main target for angiosperms. Bennett et al. (Annals of Botany86: 859–909, 2000) presented a fifth supplementary list of angiosperm C-values from 70 original sources which included first C-values for 691 species. Only 12 (1.7%) of these were first C-values for unrepresented families, so the need to improve familial representation was substantially unmet. We began new work to address this in September 1999, and now report first DNA C-values for 25 angiosperm families. Such targeting seems essential to achieve the goal of familial coverage set by the 1997 workshop within 5 years. 4C values range from 0.67 pg (similar toArabidopsis thaliana ) in Amoreuxia wrightii(Cochlospermaceae) to 7.49 pg in Deutzia prunifolia(Hydrangeaceae). These data support the view that ancestral angiosperms almost certainly had small genomes (defined as 1C <= 3.5 pg). Chromosome counts are reported for 19 taxa, including first records for three genera plus four species. Copyright 2001 Annals of Botany Company

Nuclear DNA amounts, DNA C-values, angiosperm families, chromosome numbers


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