Interesting article and a real message and warning of a sort. Molecular studies are helpful in certain cases, but they need to be associated with some morphological features, which workers in the field (and our group, Flowers of India and several online Forums have shown that these should not be exclusive trained taxonomists, but any lover of plants who knows how to recognise plants like we have Dinesh ji, Garg ji, Prashant ji and others on our forum). I was skeptical when I published a new species Tragopogon kashmirianus from Kashmir in 1976, and thought same two parents may be involved as gave rise to American T. mirus, both allotetraploids. It was a great relief when molecular studies showed that Kashmir plant was distinct from American T. mirus and that Kashmir T. dubius may be different from Europaean T. dubius (one of the parents).
http://2006.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=544 Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Tapas Chakrabarty <tchak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Respected/Dear All, > > I am sharing herewith an article which appeared in Taxon in 2014 on the > above subject. I request you all to kindly comment and give your valuable > opinion and suggestions which will enrich our knowledge. > With kind regards, > Tapas. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
