“…Species from the genus Picea are stable diploids and include 24 A chromosomes (2n=24) like most other taxons of the family Pinaceae (Khoshoo, 1961(Khoshoo, , 1962Mehra, 1968;Hizume, 1988;Rastogi & Ohri, 2020;Ohri, 2021). Our investigations contain more than 20 species of this genus (Medvedeva & Muratova, 1987;Muratova & Frolov, 1995;Muratova & Vladimirova, 2001a, 2021bMuratova et al, 2002Muratova et al, , 2004Muratova et al, , 2008Muratova et al, , 2019Muratova et al, , 2020Vladimirova et al, 2003Vladimirova et al, , 2007Sedel'nikova et al, 2004Sedel'nikova et al, , 2011Vladimirova & Muratova, 2005, 2006Karpyuk & Muratova, 2005;Karpyuk et al, 2009;Kvitko et al, 2009;Pimenov et al, 2012;Goryachkina et al, 2013;Tashev et al, 2014Tashev et al, , 2015. Some species have been studied in different parts of the range, in normal and extreme conditions: Near borders of the ranges of the species, in the swamps, in the mountains, and in the regions of anthropogenic influence.…”