ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 06 Jan 1990 00:00:01 GMT"> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1250" http-equiv=Content-Type> <TITLE>Department of Taxonomy of Vascular Plants</TITLE> <STYLE> A:link{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:active{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:visited{TEXT-DECORATION:none} A:hover{COLOR:#cc0066;TEXT-DECORATION:none} </STYLE> </head> <body link=#527D49 vlink=#527D49 alink=#527D49 topmargin=5 background=bcg2.gif> <blockquote> <p><font color="#333366" size="2" face="Verdana"> <font color="#709B63" size="4"> <a name="cardaminopsis">Taxonomic</a> revision of taxa previously classified in the genus <em>Cardaminopsis</em> in the Carpathians and relationships of Carpathian and Eastern Alpine populations</font><br> <br> <strong>Period of time:</strong> 2003 - 2005<br> <strong>Financial support:</strong> Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (VEGA, Vedecká grantová agentúra Ministerstva akolstva SR a Slovenskej akadémie vied), Slovak Republic<br> <strong>Principal investigator: </strong> <a href="http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Martin/Martin.html"><font color="#333366"> Martin Kolník</font></a><br> <strong>Participant: </strong> <a href="http://www.ibot.sav.sk/Karol01.html"><font color="#333366"> Karol Marhold</font></a> </strong></p> <p><strong>Results</strong><br> We have acquired a considerable amount of results during the three years work on the project, which will contribute to the better understanding of the evolutionary relationships within the genus <em>Arabidopsis</em> and towards the solution of numerous taxonomical problems. Wild representatives of the genus <em>Arabidopsis</em> are more and more extensively used in experimental studies, side by side with the best known model plant species <em>A. thaliana</em>. The results of this project will enable their wider use in this respect. The analysis of several representatives of the genus occurring in the area studied, using combination of karyological, morphological and molecular methods shown large, especially morphological variation of the studied taxa. Comparative study of populations from the wide area enabled to correct some previous taxonomical assumptions based on restricted amount of material. Extensive hybridisation in contact areas enabled the origin of hybrid zones suppressing at the same time the occurrence of parental taxa.</p> </blockquote> </BODY> </HTML>