Studies in the Maloideae (Rosaceae) 1- Chaenomeles Lindley and Cydonia Miller

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Department of Biological Sciences and Geology, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Roxy, Cairo, 11341, Egypt.

Abstract

Macromorphological characters, SEM of seed coat surface criteria, seed coat anatomy and seed protein
electrophoresis aspects, were used to re-assess the taxonomic relationships between the genera Chaenomeles and
Cydonia. Characters were analyzed by the NTsys-pc. program package, using the UPGMA clustering method.
The dendrograms produced were discused and showed a close relationship between Chaenomeles sinensis
Koehne and Cydonia oblonga Miller. The result gives support to the merging of the former taxon in the genus
Cydonia as presented in Mabberley (1997).

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