ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 06 Jan 1990 00:00:01 GMT"> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1250" http-equiv=Content-Type> <TITLE>Department of Taxonomy of Vascular Plants</TITLE> <base target="main1"> <STYLE> A:link{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:active{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:visited{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:hover{COLOR:#cc0066;TEXT-DECORATION:none} </STYLE> </head> <body link=#527D49 vlink=#527D49 alink=#527D49 topmargin=5 background=bcg2.gif> <p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><font color="#333366" size="2" face="Verdana"> <font color="#709B63" size="4"> <a name=mountain>Origin and evolution of mountain and alpine flora of the Carpathians </a></font></strong></p> <div align=center>&nbsp;</div> <font face=verdana size=2 color="#333366"><strong>Principal investigator: <a href="http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Patrik/index.html">Patrik Mráz </a> </strong> <P align="left"><strong> <FONT face=verdana size=2>Co-investigators: <a href=http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Iva/index.html target="blank"><strong> Iva Hodálová</a></strong>, <a href=http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Basa/index.html target="blank"><strong>Barbora `ingliarová</a></strong><br> <strong>Duration: 2008 - 2010</strong><br> <stong>Financial suport:</strong> Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA, Vedecká grantová agentúra Ministerstva akolstva SR a Slovenskej akadémie vied), Slovak Republic</font><br> project no.: 1/0028/08</p> <p align="left"> <p> <font size=2 face=verdana> The project aims at inferring of phylogenetic relationships among taxa belonging to two taxonomic groups - <i>Pilosella </i> sect. <i>Alpicolinae </i>(<i>Asteraceae</i>) and <i>Daphne </i>subsect. <i>Cneorum </i>(<i>Thymelaeaceae</i>), which include important endemic taxa of the Carpathians. Their evolutionary relationships to morphologically similar taxa will be studied by nuclear and plastid DNA sequences and AFLP markers. Results of molecular study will form a base for taxonomic revision of both groups. AFLPs will allow us to test two models of disjunction <i>P. alpicola</i> subsp. <i>ullepitschii </i>(vicariancy or long distance dispersal) and will help explain formation (polytopic vs. monotopic) of populations composed of several cytotypes in <i>P. </i>sect. <i>Alpicolinae</i>. The period of <i>D. </i>subsect. <i>Cneorum </i>diversification will be estimated in order to either affirm or reject the hypothesis on the Tertiary origin of a stenoendemic <i>D. arbuscula</i>. The project will provide the first comprehensive molecular phylogenetic frame of the genus <i>Daphne</i>. </p> </blockquote> <hr> </BODY> </HTML>