PREMISE OF THE STUDY Mountain plants are among the species most vulnerable to global warming, because of their isolation, narrow geographic distribution, and limited geographic range shifts. Stochastic and selective processes can act on the genome, modulating genetic structure and diversity. Fragmentation and historical processes also have a great influence on current genetic patterns, but the ...

Phylogenetic relationships within Limonium (Plumbaginaceae) are evaluated using sequence data from three plastid regions (rbcL, the trnL intron, and the trnL-trnF intergenic spacer). Sixty-six species representing the major genera of Staticoideae, including representatives of all sections and genera formerly included in Limonium, have been analyzed using four species of Plumbaginoideae as an ou...

Goniolimon tataricum (L.) Boiss. is recognized as a new species for the Croatian fl ora. Besides G. dalmaticum Rchb. f., G. tataricum represents the second species of this genus in Croatia. To confi rm the identity of G. tataricum as a new species, morphometric study and multivariate statistical analysis were performed on the data from four Croatian populations of G. dalmaticum and G. tataricum...

Most heterostylous plants possess a reciprocal arrangement of stigmas and anthers (reciprocal herkogamy), heteromorphic self-incompatibility, and ancillary polymorphisms of pollen and stigmas. The topographical complementarity hypothesis proposes that ancillary polymorphisms function in the rejection of incompatible pollen thus promoting disassortative pollination. Here, we test this hypothesis...

Ayurveda is time-tested science of treating disease with natural things like plant, animals and minerals. It remains one of the most ancient and yet living traditions practised widely in India, Sri Lanka and other countries and has a sound philosophical and experiential basis. Plumbago zeylanica is commonly known as white chitraka, belongs to family plumbaginaceae. It is distributed as a weed t...

Limonium stocksii (Boiss.) Kuntze (Plumbaginaceae) is a perennial, woody shrub distributed at Hawks Bay, Karachi, Pakistan. Experiments were carried out to investigate seed germination responses of L. stocksii at different salinities (0, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 mmol/L NaCl) and under different temperature regimes (10:20, 15:25, 20:30, and 25:35 °C), both in a 12 h dark : 12 h light photoper...