Isolation and Characterization of Rhizospheric Bacteria from Vuralia turcica Rhizospheric Soil

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria are highly active in soil ecosystems for legumes due to their biotic activities. Vuralia turcica (Kit Tan, Vural & Kucukoduk) Uysal & Ertugrul is a Turkish endemic legume plant with potential value as ornamental and food crops. However, reports of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in V. turcica rhizosphere are lacking in the literature. The purpose of this study was the isolation and characterization of endophytic bacteria from V. turcica rhizospheric soil. Ten bacterial strains were isolated and identified by comparing the 16S rRNA and 16S-23S rRNA ITS region. 4 isolates belonged to Bacillus megaterium, 3 strains belonged to Stenotrophomonas rhizophila, 1 strain belonged to Rhodococcus erythropolis, 1 strain belonged to Xanthomonas albilineans. The remaining 1 strain belonged to Lysobacter enzymogenes, respectively. © 2023 by the author(s). Published by Ankara University, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara, Turkey

Verbascum faik-karaveliogullarii (Scrophulariaceae), a new species from southeastern Anatolia, Turkey

Verbascum faik-karaveliogullarii Çıngay & Cabi (sect. Bothrospermae) is described as new to science from Hâkkari province (SE Anatolia, Turkey). This new species shows affinities to both Verbascum afyonense from inner Anatolia and Verbascum spectabile var. isandrum from N Anatolia. Its connections to and diagnostic differences from these species are discussed. A detailed description including pollen and seed morphologies, map and threat category of the new species are also given. © 2018 Magnolia Press.Universidad de AlicanteThe authors are grateful to the curators of the herbaria ANK and HUB for allowing them to study their Verbascum collections; Husrüf Tek and Ahmet Akbaba for their help during the fieldwork; Nihan Şişli for illustration, SEM Laboratory personnel of NABİLTEM (Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University) for their assistance in coating the pollen samples and taking their photographs during the SEM studies. We are also grateful to the Ali Nihat Gökyiğit Foundation for fieldwork funds. Two anonymous reviewers and Prof. Manuel B. Crespo (University of Alicante) made a constructive criticism that improved the text

Festuca albomontana (Poaceae), a new chasmophytic fescue from the Western Taurus Mountains (Antalya, Turkey)

A new species of Festuca from the Western Taurus Mountains (Antalya, Turkey) is described here and named F. albomontana. The new species can clearly be distinguished from the other species included in the F. alpina group by its leaf anatomical features. It has a geographically isolated position in the Western Tauruses whereas a closely related species, F. sommieri, is very local in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. It is suggested that it should be in the "critically endangered" threat category according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criteria. Observations on the ecology of the population are noted. © 2022 Sciendo. All rights reserved.FBA-2018-3773We wish to thank the Akdeniz University Scientific Research Projects Unit (Project number: FBA-2018-3773) for financial support of this study. We also would like to thank the curators of the AKDU, E, G, GJ, MW, W, WU and NMHN for access to specimens