Research Highlights: genetic diversity in populations were compared among related shrub species with different reproductive systems. Background and Objectives: Lindera are dioecious trees or shrubs that produce seeds by mating of males females. To evaluate the importance for persistence natural populations, we information four Japan. Three (Lindera praecox, umbellata, obtusiloba) sexual reprodu...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Asian genus Vigna, to which four cultivated species (rice bean, azuki bean, mung bean and black gram) belong, is suitable for comparative genomics. The aims were to construct a genetic linkage map of rice bean, to identify the genomic regions associated with domestication in rice bean, and to compare these regions with those in azuki bean. METHODS A genetic linkage map...

The rust Puccinia andropogonis (Schwein.) was studied on its aecial and telial plant hosts, comandra (Comandra umbellata L. Nutt.) and big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman), respectively, in a native prairie to investigate the influence of aecial host proximity on disease severity of the telial host in a natural system. Both hosts were mapped to measure distances from comandra clones to sel...