CHROMOSOME NUMBERS AND TAXONOMIC NOTES ON NORTHERN GRASSES: II. TRIBE FESTUCEAE

1960 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wray M. Bowden

Chromosome numbers and voucher specimens are recorded for some collections of the tribe FESTUCEAE Dumort., mainly collected in Canada. The somatic chromosome numbers of the following are recorded: (1a) Arctagrostis arundinacea (Trin.) Beal var. arundinacea, 2n = 28, 2n = 29, and 2n = 30; (1b) Arctagrostis arundinacea (Trin.) Beal var. crassispica Bowden, 2n = 56; (1c) Arctagrostis latifolia (R.Br.) Griseb., 2n = 56. (2) Beckmannia syzigachne (Steud.) Fern., 2n = 14. (3) Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv., two vars., 2n = 22. (4a) Bromus ciliatus L., 2n = 14; (4b) Bromus inermis Leyss., two subspecies and two vars., 2n = 56; (4e) Bromus kalmii A. Gray, 2n = 14; (4d) Bromus porteri (Coult.) Nash, 2n = 14; (4c) Bromus tectorum L., 2n = 14. (5) Catabrosa aquatica (L.) Beauv. var. laurentiana Fern., 2n = 20. (6) Dactylis glomerata L., 2n = 28. (7) Distichlisstricta (Torr.) Rydb., 2n = 40. (8a) Dupontiafisheri R.Br, subsp. fisheri, 2n = 132; (8b) Dupontia fisheri R.Br, subsp. psilosantha (Rupr.) Hultén, 2n = 44. (9) Eremopoa persica (Trin.) Roshev., 2n = 28. (10a) Festuca altaica Trin., 2n = 28; (10b) Festuca baffinensis Polunin, 2n = 28; (10c) Festuca brachyphylla Schultes, 2n = 42 and one collection, 2n = 44; (10d) Festuca elatior L., 2n = 14; (10e) Festuca obtusa Bieler, 2n = 42; (10f) Festuca prolifera (Piper) Fern. var. lasiolepis Fern., 2n = 50; (10g) Festuca rubra L., 2n = 42; (10h) Festuca saximontana Rydb., 2n = 42; (10i)Festuca scabrella Torr. ex Hook., two vars., 2n = 56 and 2n = 28. (11a) Glyceria borealis (Nash) Batchelder, 2n = 20; (11b) Glyceria canadensis (Michx.) Trin., 2n = 60; (11c) Glyceria grandis S. Wats., 2n = 20; (11d) Glyceria melicaria (Michx.) Hubb., 2n = 40; (11e) Glyceria pulchella (Nash) K. Schum., 2n = 20; (11f) Glyceria striata (Lam.) Hitchc, 2n = 20; (11g) Glyceria × gatineauensis Bowden (G. melicaria × G. striata), 2n = 30; (11h)Glyceria × ottawensis Bowden (G. canadensis × G. striata), three nothomorphs, 2n = 42, 2n = 46, and 2n = 48. (12) Lolium rigidum Gaud., 2n = 14. (13a) Phippsiaalgida (Sol.) R.Br., 2n = 28; (13b) Phippsia concinna (Th. Fries) Lindeb., 2n = 28. (14) Pleuropogon sabinei R.Br., 2n = 42. (15) Schizachnepurpurascens (Torr.) Swallen, 2n = 20. (16) Torreyochloa fernaldii (Hitchc.) Church, 2n = 14.

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wray M. Bowden

Chromosome numbers and voucher specimens are recorded for some Canadian and Alaskan collections and a few mainland American collections of Poa and Puccinellia which belong to the tribe FESTUCEAE. The somatic chromosome numbers of the following are recorded: (1) Poa agassizensis, 2n = ca. 56; P. alpina, 2n = 32, 33, 39, and 42; P. ampla, 2n = 62; P. annua, 2n = 28; P. arctica, 2n = 56, 63, 70, ca. 75, 78, 82, 85, 86, and 106; P. arida, 2n = ca. 76; P. canbyi, 2n = 56, 70, and ca. 98; P. cusickii, 2n = 56, and 59; P. eminens, 2n = 42; P. fernaldiana, 2n = ca. 42; P. glauca, 2n = 42, 50, 56, 64, 65, 70, 75, and 78; P. glaucantha, 2n = 44; P. glaucifolia, 2n = 56, ca. 70, and ca. 100; P. interior, 2n = 28, 34, 42, and 56; P. juncifolia, 2n = ca. 60; P. leptocoma, 2n = 42; P. nervosa, 2n = 56, and ca. 74; P. palustris, 2n = 28, 30, and 32; P. pratensis, 2n = 28, 42, 44, 56, ca. 66, 67, 70, 74, ca. 78, ca. 82, 84, 86, 88, and ca. 124; P. saltuensis, 2n = 28; P. secunda, 2n = 42, 56, 70, ca. 78, 80. and ca. 90; P. stenantha, 2n = 42; and P. trivialis, 2n = 14.(2) Puccinellia ambigua, 2n = 56; P. americana, 2n = ca. 42 and 56; P. angustata, 2n = 42; P. borealis, 2n = 42; P. bruggemannii, 2n = 28; P. cusickii, 2n = 28; P. distans, 2n = 42; P. glabra, 2n = 42 and 56; P. hauptiana, 2n = 28; P. laurentiana, 2n = 42 and 56; P.longiglumis, 2n = 56; P. lucida, 2n = 42 and 56; P. nuttalliana, 2n = 42; P. × phryganodes, 2n = 21; P. vaginata, 2n = 56; and P. vahliana, 2n = 14.


1959 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1143-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wray M. Bowden

Chromosome numbers and voucher specimens are recorded for some collections of the tribe TRITICEAE Dumort., mainly collected in Canada. The somatic chromosome numbers of the following are recorded: (1) Elymus canadensis L., 2n = 28; (2) Elymus cinereus Scribn. & Merr., 2n = 28 and 2n = 56; (3) Elymus glaucus Buckl., 2n = 28; (4a) Elymus innovatus Beal subsp. innovatus, 2n = 28; (4b) Elymus innovatus Beal subsp. velutinus Bowden, 2n = 56; (5) Elymus wiegandii Fern., 2n = 28; (6) Eremopyrum triticeum (Gaertn.) Nevski, 2n = 14; (7) Sitanion hystrix (Nutt.) J. G. Smith, 2n = 28; (8) × Agrohordeum macounii (Vasey) Lepage, 2n = 28; (9) × Agroelymushirtiflorus (Hitchc.) Bowden, 2n = 28; and (10) × Agroelymus ungavensis (Louis-Marie) Lepage, 2n = 28. Because var. coreensis Hack. is an earlier varietal name, Elymus mollis Trin. var. coreensis (Hack.) Bowden replaces E. mollis Trin. var. japonicus Bowden as the name for the variety that occurs on the shores of the Sea of Japan.


1985 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-791
Author(s):  
H. A. BURITY ◽  
B. E. COULMAN ◽  
M. A. FARIS

A greenhouse experiment has shown that total nitrogenase activity of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is not significantly affected when grown in association with timothy (Phleum pratense L.), smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss) or orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) except after initial harvest when decreased alfalfa activity was associated with smooth bromegrass or orchardgrass. It was concluded that mixed cultures of alfalfa with timothy, smooth bromegrass or orchardgrass have no effect on alfalfa N2 fixation. The results also suggest the occurrence of N transference from alfalfa to associated grasses. It is speculated that this transfer is not primarily due to the death of roots and nodule tissue (after harvest), but involves some degree of N excretion during the period before initial harvest.Key words: Alfalfa-grass mixtures, N2-fixation, nodule activity, N-transference


1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 685-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. LESSARD ◽  
M. HIDIROGLOU ◽  
R. B. CARSON ◽  
J. M. WAUTHY

Each of the species birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.), timothy (Phleum pratense L.), bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.), orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.), reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) and creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra L.) was grown in the field on 10 plots sampled at weekly intervals in rotation from June 13. Each plot was resampled after 6 weeks and all samples were analyzed for copper, molybdenum and sulfur. In most species, levels of Cu and Mo were highest in the early samplings and decreased with advancing maturity. Second-cut samples tended to be higher in Cu, Mo and S than first-cut samples. The S content was more uniform in the first cycle but increased considerably in the second cycle, especially in reed canarygrass. The ranges in Cu content were 7.4 to 14.1 ppm for birdsfoot trefoil and 3.7 to 11.4 ppm for the grasses. Mo ranged from 1.9 to 8.1 ppm in birdsfoot trefoil and from 1.0 to 6.5 ppm in the grasses. The overall range in S content was from 0.14 to 0.95%. The mineral composition of the crops is discussed in relation to the requirement of ruminants for these three elements.


2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-148
Author(s):  
K. Bijok ◽  
E. Adamkiewicz

The somatic chromosome numbers 2n = 30 for <em>Sparganium neglectum</em> and <em>S. minimum</em> was established. The karyotype of the first species consist of 8 iso- and 7 heterobronchial chromosomes and the reverse is true for the second species. In metabolic nuclei 30 chromocentres are visible.


1972 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. Anderson ◽  
N. L. Taylor ◽  
G. B. Collins

In the present study chromosome numbers of 13 Trifolium species were determined, making a total of 155 species for which chromosome numbers have been reported. Four species which have been reported only once were confirmed. Eleven of the 17 species observed have 16 chromosomes (n = 8). T. bocconei Savi was found to have 12 chromosomes (n = 6) and T. desvauxii Boess. and Bl. was found to have 10 chromosomes (n = 5). Karyotype analyses of T. bocconei and T. desvauxii revealed that the chromosomes of each species could be differentiated on the basis of arm ratios and chromosome lengths.


1968 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Christie ◽  
D. N. Mowat

Individual clones of bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss) and orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) were harvested at corresponding stages of maturity within each species. The orchardgrass clones were harvested in 1962, and the in vitro digestibility (IVD) was based on the whole plant. Bromegrass clones, harvested in 1965 and 1966, were separated into leaves and stems. The IVD of each component was determined, and from these, the IVD for the whole plant was estimated.Among 444 orchardgrass clones, IVD values ranged from 49 to 68%. Most of the variation was attributed to genotypic effects. For approximately 250 clones of bromegrass, IVD values ranged from 66 to 75%, 58 to 73%, and 62 to 74%, for leaves, stems, and whole plants respectively. Over the 2-year period, differences among stems and whole plants were significant. Correlations between leaf and stem digestibilities were significant but of low magnitude. Ten clones of bromegrass had stems and leaves of equal digestibility.In bromegrass, IVD values showed no relationship to several phenotypic characteristics.


1997 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masao Yajima ◽  
Hisayuki Nakamura ◽  
Kumiko Takahashi ◽  
Yasumitu Watanabe ◽  
Shigemi Saito ◽  
...  

1973 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A.H. Legro ◽  
J. Doorenbos

The somatic chromosome numbers are presented of 34 spp. of African, Asiatic and American origin. Many spp. had not previously been investigated cytologically. [For part 2 see HcA 42, 1737.]. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)


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