Out of the Alps or Carpathians? Origin of Central European populations of Rosa pendulina.

Tomáš Fér 1 , Petr Vašák 2 , Jaroslav Vojta 1 & Karol Marhold 1 3

Affiliations

  1. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01 Praha 2, Czech Republic
  2. Department of Dendrology and Forest Tree Breeding, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 129, CZ-165 21 Praha 6, Czech Republic
  3. Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 14, SK-845 23 Bratislava, Slovakia
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Abstract

The phylogeographical structure of the temperate shrub Rosa pendulina at 45 locations in Europe was studied using sequencing of a non-coding cpDNA region (trnL-trnF). Our study revealed a clear geographic structure of cpDNA haplotypes. Three main haplotypes were geographically widespread, but showed little overlap in their distributions, suggesting that postglacial expansion occurred from at least two distinct glacial refugia, probably located (1) at the edge of the Alps, N Apennines or Dinaric Alps, and (2) in the Balkan Peninsula or S Carpathians. All populations at locations in the Czech Republic and surrounding regions are of Carpathian origin. This finding disproved an Alpine origin of R. pendulina populations in the Šumava Mts (Czech Republic). A contact zone between Carpathian and Alpine migration routes of R. pendulina is probably located in the Danube valley.

Keywords

cpDNA, glacial refugia, phylogeography, postglacial migration, trnL-trnF sequences

How to cite

Fér T., Vašák P., Vojta J. & Marhold K. (2007) Out of the Alps or Carpathians? Origin of Central European populations of Rosa pendulina. – Preslia 79: 367–376