{"id":8082,"date":"2024-06-21T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2024-06-21T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:29:17","slug":"numerical-taxonomy-of-erodium-spp-distributed-in-aleppo-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"Numerical Taxonomy of Erodium spp. distributed in Aleppo, Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Abdel Aleem Bello <sup>(1)<\/sup> and Aline Batch<sup>*(1)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(1). Plant Biology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Aline Batch, \u00a0E-Mail: <a href=\"alinebatch@hotmail.com\">alinebatch@hotmail.com<\/a>, Tel: 0944826295)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Received:\u00a0 29\/09\/2022 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accepted: 22\/02\/2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">This study aimed to inventory and classify <em>Erodium<\/em> L&#8217;Herit species spread in Aleppo, and it relied on macro and micromorphological characteristics such as the general shape and characteristics of leaves, flowers, fruits, mericarps, seeds and pollen grains. The number of studied traits was 69, including 33 quantitative and 36 qualitative. Numerical cluster analysis was done using R software and K-means clustering algorithm. Seven species have been classified: <em>E. cicutarium, E. acaule, E. moschatum, E. deserti, E. ciconium, E. malacoides, and E. subtrilobum,<\/em> all of which belong to the subgenus. <em>Barbata<\/em> Boiss. The carpel foveoles were non-glandular in <em>E. cicutarium<\/em> and <em>E. acaule<\/em>, while it was clearly glandular in the other five species. The carpel foveoles were surrounded by furrows in all species except <em>E. ciconium<\/em>. The furrows were non-glandular in <em>E. cicutarium<\/em>, <em>E. acaule<\/em> and <em>E. subtrilobum<\/em>, and glandular in <em>E. moschatum<\/em> and <em>E. deserti<\/em> and <em>E. malacoides<\/em>. The study of pollen showed the similarity of the studied species in the shape of the grains and differences in the dimensions of the polar axis P and the equatorial diameter E. The seeds of the studied species were similar in dimensions and were all oblanceolate with a rounded apex, except for the seeds of <em>E. ciconium<\/em> which had the largest length of 3.9 mm and had Elliptical shape with truncate top. The results of the numerical analysis showed that the species separated into two clusters, the first included <em>E. cicutarium<\/em> and <em>E. acaule<\/em>, while the second separated into two sub-clusters, the first containing <em>E. ciconium<\/em> alone, and the second containing two groups, the first including <em>E. moschatum<\/em> and <em>E. deserti<\/em>, the second included <em>E. malacoides<\/em> and <em>E. subtrilobum<\/em>. The study showed that Aleppo is a natural and rich habitat of <em>Erodium<\/em> species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: <em>Erodium<\/em>, Geraniaceae, Numerical taxonomy, Macromorphology, Micromorphology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v11n3p30.pdf\">pdf<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdel Aleem Bello (1) and Aline Batch*(1) (1). Plant Biology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Aline Batch, \u00a0E-Mail: alinebatch@hotmail.com, Tel: 0944826295) Received:\u00a0 29\/09\/2022 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accepted: 22\/02\/2023 Abstract:\u00a0 This study aimed to inventory and classify &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=8082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}