Aida, Bani

Cecchi, Lorenzo

Colzi, Ilaria

Coppi, Andrea

Gonnelli, Cristina

Guillaume, Echevarria

Isabella, Bettarini

Selvi, Federico

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113° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana   V INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE (IPSC)   Fisciano (SA), 12 - 15 September 2018        ABSTRACTS   KEYNOTE LECTURES, COMMUNICATIONS, POSTERS            ISBN 978-88-85915-22-0 COMMUNICATION N. 32 113° Congresso S.B.I. (IPSC) - Fisciano (SA), 12 - 15 September 2018 !Diversity, evolution and nickel accumulation in a critical group of metallophytes from a major serpentine hotspot: the genus Odontarrhena (Brassicaceae)  in Albania  Federico Selvi1, Aida Bani2, Isabella Bettarini3, Lorenzo Cecchi4, Ilaria Colzi3, Andrea Coppi3, Guillaume Echevarria4, Cristina Gonnelli3 1Department of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Sciences, Laboratories of Botany, University of Firenze, Italy; 2Agro-Environmental Department, Agricultural University of Tirana, Koder-Kamez, Tirana, Albania; 3Department of Biology, University of Firenze, Italy, Natural History Museum, Botany Section, University of Firenze, Italy; 4Laboratoire Sols et Environnement UMR 1120, Université de Lorraine - INRA, France  Serpentine soils are extreme environments for plant life due to their physical and chemical anomalies, especially the high levels of heavy metals such as Ni, Cr and Co. Only a few plants groups are adapted to live on these soils and these are termed “metallophytes” (1). A special group of metallophytes is that of Ni-accumulator plants, which are able to accumulate more than 1000 µg Ni g−1 leaf dry weight without any toxicity symptom. In the Euro-Mediterranean region, the most diverse and widely distributed of these plant groups is Odontarrhena C.A.Mey. Several experimental studies on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of Ni-hyperaccumulation have been performed on model taxa of this genus, and many of these are currently used or considered for phytoremediation or phytomining practices (2). Despite the importance of such plants, however, our knowledge about the diversity, evolutionary dynamics and metal accumulation capacity in Odontarrhena is still incomplete. Taxonomic interpretation of several species groups remains problematic due to the often large phenotypic plasticity of populations, weak correspondence between morphological, ecological or geographical variation, low phylogenetic divergence and relatively homogeneous karyotype features (3). Past authors proposed complex treatments based on a narrow morphological species concept. More recent views mostly recognize a lower number of taxa, that, however, are considerably different from author to author. Nomenclatural inconsistencies caused by the divergent taxonomic opinions hamper further studies of ecological and physiological type, as well the use of these plants for practical applications. Because of the large occurrence of serpentine soils and its geomorphological complexity, Albania is a major center of diversity of Odontharrhena. The country is botanically still poorly known and, to date, no consensus has existed either about the number and the distribution of native taxa of this genus or about the names to be adopted for them (4). Patterns of genetic variation and diversity within and between such taxa/populations were also mostly unknown, despite a few previous phylogenetic studies (5, 6). To fill these gaps, we started a series of investigations mainly based on material collected from over thirty natural populations from the entire Albanian territory during numerous field trips started in 2006, on serpentine and non-serpentine soils. After in-depth studies of literature and (scarce) herbarium collections, including type materials, we especially focused on the loci-classici of the 18 taxa described from the country. The study of this material with morphological, karyological and molecular tools allowed us to provide answers to the following questions: 1) how many and which taxa do exist in Albania? 2) Which are their phylogenetic relationships and patterns of population genetic structure and diversity? 3) Is there a relationship between the levels of heavy metals (especially Ni) in their native soil and those in their below- and above-ground tissues?  1) M. Wójcik, C. Gonnelli, F. Selvi et al. (2017) Adv. Bot. Res., 83, 1-42 2) P.S. Kidd, A. Bani, E. Benizri, et al. (2018) Frontiers Plant Sci., in press 3) L. Cecchi, I. Colzi, A. Coppi et al. (2013) Bot. J. Linn. Soc., 173, 269-289 4) L. Cecchi, I. Bettarini, I. Colzi et al. (2018) Phytotaxa, 351, 1-28 5) L. Cecchi, R. Gabbrielli, M. Arnetoli et al. (2010) Ann. Bot. (London), 106, 751-767 6) I. Rešetnik, Z. Satovic, G.M. Schneeweiss, Z. Liber (2013) Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 69, 772-786 

Diversity, evolution and nickel accumulation in a critical group of metallophytes from a major serpentine hotspot: the genus Odontarrhena (Brassicaceae) in Albania

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Diversity, evolution and nickel accumulation in a critical group of metallophytes from a major serpentine hotspot: the genus Odontarrhena (Brassicaceae) in Albania

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