Towards a Genome Size and Chromosome Number Database of Balkan Flora: C-Values in 343 Taxa with Novel Values for 242

Micromorphological, Anatomical and Cytogenetical Studies in Endemic Crepis macropus Boiss. & Heldr. (Asteraceae) from Turkey

“…In these terms, the endemic C. macropus has an intermediate genome. Similar results are reported in other species of Crepis (Godelle et al 1993, Siljak-Yakovlev et al 2010, Enke et al 2011. The similarities in the nuclear DNA content as well as karyotype and external morphology of C. macropus and its relative suggest that their genomes evolved from a common ancestral genome and underwent some structural differentiation of the genomes.…”

Karyological study of some Mediterranean species from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Lebanon

“…The diploid chromosome number 2n = 14+0-2Bs is reported by several authors (Fedorov 1969;IPCN 1979;Zonneveld 2008;Siljak-Yakovlev & al. 2010;Pustahija & al.…”

Genome size in aquatic and wetland plants: fitting with the large genome constraint hypothesis with a few relevant exceptions

“…The only chromosome number reported for this species being 2n = 16 (Table 1), this parameter should be further studied in this species to confirm this hypothesis. For Parnassia palustris, our assessment (2C = 3.66 pg) also significantly differs from the previously published one (2C = 2.35 pg, Siljak-Yakovlev et al 2010) in a way that it could suggest two ploidy levels; according to chromosome counts published for this species, diploid to hexaploid -including triploid-populations have been detected, what would agree with the two genome size results found to date. Undoubtedly, chromosome counts are necessary in all cases to ensure ploidy levels, but some big 2C value changes as those commented above clearly point to the existence of several levels in some taxa.…”