Rocket: a Mediterranean crop for the world - Bioversity International
Rocket: a Mediterranean crop for the world - Bioversity International
Rocket: a Mediterranean crop for the world - Bioversity International
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
16<br />
ROCKET GENETIC RESOURCES NETWORK<br />
Table 4. Taxa of <strong>the</strong> three subgroups of <strong>the</strong> third group of Diplotaxis and <strong>the</strong>ir known<br />
chromosome numbers<br />
Taxon No.<br />
D. erucoides (L.) DC. subsp. Erucoides 7<br />
D. erucoides (L.) DC. subsp. longisiliqua (Coss.) Gómez-Campo 7<br />
D. ibicensis (Pau) Gómez-Campo 8<br />
D. brevisiliqua (Coss.) Mart.-Laborde 8<br />
D. ilorcitana (Sennen) Aedo et al. 8<br />
D. siettiana Maire 8<br />
D. assurgens (Del.) Thell. 9<br />
D. berthautii Br.-Bl. and Maire 9<br />
D. catholica (L.) DC. var. catholica 9<br />
D. catholica (L.) DC. var. rivulorum (Br.-Bl. And Maire) Maire ?<br />
D. tenuisiliqua Del. subsp. Tenuisiliqua 9<br />
D. tenuisiliqua Del. subsp. rupestris (J. Ball) Mart.-Laborde ?<br />
D. virgata (Cav. DC.) subsp. Virgata 9<br />
D. virgata (Cav. DC.) f. sahariensis Coss. ?<br />
D. siifolia Kunze subsp. Siifolia 10<br />
D. siifolia Kunze subsp. bipinnatifida (Coss.) Mart.-Laborde ?<br />
D. siifolia Kunze subsp. vicentina (Samp.) Mart.-Laborde 10<br />
D. brachycarpa Godr. †<br />
D. ollivierii Maire ?<br />
† Count still unpublished.<br />
volatile isothiocyanates. This group comprises three taxa with n=11: D. tenuifolia,<br />
including subsp. cretacea, and D. simplex; D. viminea has n=10 and differs from <strong>the</strong> rest<br />
in having much smaller flowers. Also with a different chromosome number,<br />
D. muralis subsp. muralis has n=21 and is considered to be an allotetraploid from<br />
D. viminea and D. tenuifolia. The analysis of several isozymes (Sánchez-Yélamo and<br />
Martínez-Laborde 1991) supported <strong>the</strong> hybrid origin, and also showed a considerable<br />
similarity of patterns within <strong>the</strong> whole group. The o<strong>the</strong>r subspecies, D. muralis subsp.<br />
ceratophylla (Fig. 6), also appeared in this group. Little is known about D. scaposa, but<br />
it is morphologically close to D. muralis and seems to belong in this group.<br />
A second, very small group includes two OTUs, representing two subspecies of<br />
D. harra (Fig. 7). They are perennials with leafy stems, petals with brochidodromous<br />
nerviation, and seedless beak. Several o<strong>the</strong>r taxa could be added here (Table 3). The<br />
four species from Cape Verde – D. gracilis, D. glauca, D. hirta and D. vogelii – are<br />
morphologically very similar to D. harra; at least <strong>the</strong> first three have n=13<br />
chromosomes, and two of <strong>the</strong>m have even been reduced to subspecies of D. harra<br />
(Sobrino Vesperinas 1993). O<strong>the</strong>r species, also morphologically close to D. harra but<br />
with unknown chromosome numbers, are D. villosa, D. kohlaanensis, D. nepalensis and<br />
D. pitardiana.<br />
A difficult case is that of D. acris. This species has larger flowers with purple<br />
petals, but is morphologically very similar to <strong>the</strong> D. harra group in most o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
respects. However, it has n=11 chromosomes – instead of 13 – and shows no evident<br />
affinity with <strong>the</strong> D. tenuifolia group. The same is valid <strong>for</strong> D. griffithii, of unknown<br />
chromosome number but very close to D. acris.<br />
The third group is <strong>the</strong> most numerous and heterogeneous, and includes three<br />
subgroups (Table 4). Taxa here are in general annuals with leafy stems, petal<br />
nervation generally kladodromous, and a frequently seminiferous beak. The two<br />
subspecies of D. erucoides (Fig. 8) are <strong>the</strong> only taxa with brochidodromous petals and