TITLE	A study of taxonomical relationships among species of Korean Allium sect. Sacculiferum (Alliaceae) and related species using inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers
AUTHOR	Gang Hao South China Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, P. R. China Dong-Hee Lee Department of Biology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea June Seung Lee Department of Biology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea Nam Sook Lee Department of Biology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
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ABSTRACT	Morphological differences among Korean Allium subgenus Rhizirideum sect. Sacculiferum and some related species are minor, making species delimitation difficult. Inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) was employed to assess genetic diversity and relationships. Thirty-four accessions, representing six taxa of A. thunbergii, A. sacculiferum, A. deltoides-fistulosum, A. cyaneum var. cyaneum, A. cyaneum var. deltoides, A. anisopodium, were sampled in this study. The ISSR markers revealed high polymorphism among taxa studied. In the phenetic analysis, accessions of A. sacculiferum and A. deltoides-fistulosum are nested within A. thunbergii accession group; A. cyaneum var. cyaneum and A. cyaneum var. deltoides are separated from the above sect. Sacculiferum group; the status of putative A. anisopodium is less clear, with a position between sect. Sacculiferum and A. cyaneum. We propose that A. deltoides-fistulosum and A. sacculiferum be sunk into A. thunbergii and that the putative A. anisopodium be recognized as A. cyaneum var. deltoides.
KEYWORD	Allium; Genetic diversity; Korea; Phenetic analysis; Sect. Sacculiferum;
ARTICLE INFO	Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 43 Number 1 January 2002, page 63-68, 6 pages
PUBLISHER	Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China