SEM of seed coat surface characters and the taxonomic relationships in the genus Sesbania Scop. (Leguminosae - Papilionoideae).

Loutfy, Mohammed; Abou-El-Enain, Maged; El-Kholy, Mohammed

doi:10.21608/taec.1999.12637

SEM of seed coat surface characters and the taxonomic relationships in the genus Sesbania Scop. (Leguminosae - Papilionoideae).

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Biological Science and Geology Department, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Roxy (Heliopolis), P.C.11341, Cairo, Egypt.

² Botany Department, Faculty of Science, El-Azhar University (Boys), Madenit Nasr, P.C. 11371, Cairo, Egypt.

10.21608/taec.1999.12637

Abstract

Criteria obtained by SEM of seed coat surface have been used to re-assess the taxonomic relationships between
19 species belonging to three subgenera of the genus Sesbania. The produced characters were analyzed by the
NTSYS-pc. program package using the UPGMA clustering method. The produced phenogram supported the
treatment of the three taxa Agati, Daubentonia and Sesbania as subgenera in the genus Sesbania. SEM criteria
have revealed that, the genus represent a natural monphyletic group and the subgenus Sesbania is the center of
the genus from which the other subgenera could have been evolved.

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