Research Article | Published: 01 December 1997

Possible ancestry and the systematics of the Sudan’s common Mesquite (Prosopis)

Yahya M. Bukhari

Indian Journal of Forestry | Volume: 20 | Issue: 4 | Page No. 341-345 | 1997
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-1997-41F4G3 | Cite this article

Abstract

Cytological and flow-cytometric investigations were performed on Prosopis spp. supplied from different sources, including those ones recently introduced into the Sudan which are known as the Sudan’s ‘Common Mesquite’. The Sudanese and Kenyan seed sources were tetraploid (2n = 4x = 56), whereas samples of taxa regarded as possible progenitors of the Sudan’s ‘Common Mesquite’ were diploid (2n = 2x = 28). The study suggests that the Sudan’s ‘Common Mesquite’ is neither P. chilensis nor P. juliflora. It is rather an allotetraploid new form. It is also suggested that this tetraploid cytotype is a hybrid product between P. chilensis and P. glandulosa. It is proposed that this hybridization event was followed by a spontaneous chromosome doubling. Flow-cytometric data showed that the mean 2C-values of P. chilensis, P. glandulosa, and the Sudanese Mesquite are 0.853 ± 0.024, 0.827 ± 0.005 and 1.725 ± 0.035 pg, respectively. These results propose that P. chilensis and P. glandulosa can be possible progenitors of the mesquite of the Sudan.

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Fig. 1

Somatic chromosome numbers of some taxa of Prosopis. 1: P. sp. 2n = 56 (Central Sudan); 2: P. sp. 2n = 56 (Eastern Sudan); 3: P. sp. 2n = 56 (Western Sudan); 4: P. juliflora 2n = 56 (Pakistan); 5: P. sp. 2n = 56 (Kenya); 6: P. juliflora 2n = 28 (Mexico); 7: P. africana 2n = 28 (Senegal); 8: P. chilensis 2n = 28 (Chile); 9: P. africana 2n = 28 (Sudan); 10: P. juliflora 2n = 28 (Senegal); 11: P. pubescens 2n = 28 (Chile); 12: P. glandulosa 2n = 28 (Mexico).

Fig. 2

Histograms of nuclear DNA amounts of selected Prosopis taxa. a: Sudan’s Common Mesquite (channel 165). b: P. chilensis (channel 84) c: P. glandulosa (channel 85)

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Bukhari, Y.M., 1997. Possible ancestry and the systematics of the Sudan’s common Mesquite (Prosopis). Indian Journal of Forestry, 20(4), pp.341-345. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-1997-41F4G3

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