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Abstract
Genome size estimations are reported for nine Gagea species, belonging to two different sections. The lowest value was found in Gagea cf. peduncularis from Turkey (sect. Didymobulbos), 2C = 12.06 pg, likely diploid, the highest in a pentaploid G. pratensis from S France (sect. Gagea), 2C = 39.45 pg. Monoploid genome size or 1Cx values range from 5.81 pg in G. foliosa (sect. Didymobulbos) to 9.16 pg in G. sicula, from the same section.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks are due to Janis Ruksans and Dörte Harpke for having provided bulbs of Gagea cf. peduncularis from Turkey and to Mickael Bourge and Spencer C. Brown for their assistance in cytometry at the Imagif Platform IbiSA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Flavia Domizia Nardi’s stay in Paris benefited from an ERASMUS grant provided by the University of Pisa from December 2013 to March 2014.
