@article{article_376892, title={ITS Phylogeny and Molecular Dating of some Gundelia (Asteraceae) of Anatolia}, journal={ANADOLU Journal of Aegean Agricultural Research Institute}, volume={27}, pages={74–77}, year={2017}, author={Tarıkahya Hacıoglu, Burcu and Fırat, Mehmet}, keywords={Asteraceae,Gundelia,ITS,molecular dating,phylogeny}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:1cm;"> <b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;color:#231F20;" xml:lang="en-us">Gundelia </span> </i> </b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;color:#231F20;" xml:lang="en-us"> L. is known to be a monotypic genus according to the flora books. <b>Gundelia tournefortii </b> L. was the only species of the genus <b>Gundelia </b> L. In our research we used the recently introduced species: <b>Gundelia aragatsi </b> Vitek, Fayvush, Tamanyan & Gemeinholzer, </span> </i> <b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Gundelia dersim </span> </i> </b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> Vitek, Yüce & Ergin, <b>Gundelia munzuriensis </b> Vitek, Yüce & Ergin, <b>Gundelia vitekii </b> Armağan, <b>Gundelia komagenensis </b> Fırat, </span> </i> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;color:#231F20;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </i> <b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Gundelia colemerikensis </span> </i> </b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </i> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Fırat, </span> </i> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;color:#231F20;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </i> <b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Gundelia cilicica </span> </i> </b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> </i> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Fırat </span> </i> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;color:#231F20;" xml:lang="en-us"> and </span> </i> <b> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Gundelia anatolica </span> </i> </b> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Firat <i>, </i> </span> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;color:#231F20;" xml:lang="en-us">in order to reconstruct a phylogeny inference and molecular dating by using ITS region. The mentioned species were collected from Turkey and beside our collections, the ITS sequences belonging to <b>G. tournefortii </b> accessions of former studies were used in our research. According to the phylogeny inference, <b>G. anatolica </b> was different from all <b>Gundelia </b> accessions. Some <b>G. tournefortii </b> accessions belonging to former studies grouped with <b>G. cilicica </b>, <b>G. dersim </b> and <b>G. colemerikensis </b>, <b>G. munzurensis </b> clustered with <b>G. vitekii </b>. <b>Gundelia komagenensis </b> and <b>G. aragatsi </b> accessions were grouped as close relatives. According to the molecular dating the distinction of the genus <b>Gundelia </b> from the relative genera was around 14.1 </span> </i> <i> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:9pt;" xml:lang="en-us">million years ago <span style="color:#231F20;"> (mya). </span> </span> </i> </p> <p> <i> </i> </p> <i> </i>}, number={2}, publisher={Aegean Agricultural Research Institute}