- Nicotiana otophora
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Nicotiana otophora Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: Solanales Family: Solanaceae Genus: Nicotiana Species: N. otophora Binomial name Nicotiana otophora
L.Nicotiana otophora is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is a wild species of tobacco native to the Andes Mountains of Bolivia and Argentina.
Recent genetic evidence suggests the possibility that it is one of the parent species of the common domesticated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), which was hybridized along with the species Nicotiana sylvestris, and Nicotiana tomentosiformis.[1][2]
The evidence for its parentage of Nicotiana tabacum is weaker at this time than it is for the other two species Nicotiana sylvestris, and Nicotiana tomentosiformis.
References
- ^ Nan Ren and Michael P. Timko (August 2001). "AFLP analysis of genetic polymorphism and evolutionary relationships among cultivated and wild Nicotiana species". Genome 44 (4): 559–571. doi:10.1139/gen-44-4-559. PMID 11550889. http://article.pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ppv/RPViewDoc?_handler_=HandleInitialGet&journal=gen&volume=44&calyLang=fra&articleFile=g01-060.pdf.
- ^ Murad, L. et al. (August 2002). "The origin of tobacco's T genome is traced to a particular lineage within Nicotiana tomentosiformis (Solanaceae)". American Journal of Botany 89 (6): 921–928. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.6.921.
External links
- Yukawa, M; Tsudzuki, T; Sugiura, M (April 2006). "The chloroplast genome of Nicotiana sylvestris and Nicotiana tomentosiformis: complete sequencing confirms that the Nicotiana sylvestris progenitor is the maternal genome donor of Nicotiana tabacum". Molecular genetics and genomics 275 (4): 367–73. doi:10.1007/s00438-005-0092-6. ISSN 1617-4615. PMID 16435119.
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