Journal article

Publication year: 2007

Pages: 181-190

Journal: Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volume number: 263

Issue number: 3-4

ISSN: 0378-2697

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-006-0480-3

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
Chemical surface characters play a decisive role in the interaction between plants and their environment. Maternal or paternal inheritance of wax characters in Rosa, section Caninae may allow for ecological niche differentiation according to the parental evolutionary constraints. If so, the radiation of hybrid offspring may reflect the parentally determined framework of interaction and selection against pathogens and abiotic stresses. We tested the inheritance of cuticular chemical wax parameters of reciprocal hybrids within Rosa, section Caninae, the dogroses. We not only found an extremely rich spectrum of chemical compounds on abaxial and adaxial leaf surfaces of dogroses, but also a maternally skewed inheritance of some of these wax characters. The possible role of these findings for the evolution of the allopolyploid dogrose complex is discussed.

Harvard Citation style: Wissemann, V., Riedel, M. and Riederer, M. (2007) Matroclinal inheritance of cuticular waxes in reciprocal hybrids of Rosa species, sect. Caninae (Rosaceae), Plant Systematics and Evolution, 263(3-4), pp. 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-006-0480-3

APA Citation style: Wissemann, V., Riedel, M., & Riederer, M. (2007). Matroclinal inheritance of cuticular waxes in reciprocal hybrids of Rosa species, sect. Caninae (Rosaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution. 263(3-4), 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-006-0480-3