Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India
The present study investigated the palynological diversity of highly medicinal Rare, Endangered, and Threatened (RET) plant species dwelling in higher altitudes of Western Himalaya, India. The pollen morphology of 32 plant species covering 29 genera, 23 families, and 18 orders of Angiosperms was an...
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| author | Bushan KUMAR Kanwaljeet SINGH Pankaj KUMAR Zohra BATOOL Shakti K. DHIMAN Sumeet GAIROLA |
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The present study investigated the palynological diversity of highly medicinal Rare, Endangered, and Threatened (RET) plant species dwelling in higher altitudes of Western Himalaya, India. The pollen morphology of 32 plant species covering 29 genera, 23 families, and 18 orders of Angiosperms was analyzed by Light Microscopy (LM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The families of the studied plant species have been arranged and discussed following the evolutionary sequence as per the updated version of Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ІV. The studied pollen characters were found to be helpful in the delimitation of taxa at the species level. In the studied monocots, the species belonging to order Zingiberales, Asparagales, and Liliales followed the general trend of having primitive inaperturate to advance monosulcate pollen except for Alismatales which had inaperturate pollen and placed after the orders mentioned above in the APG ІV classification system. The pollen aperture of the eudicot group in the present study followed the evolutionary pattern from tricolpate to tricolporate and triporate, which corroborated previous reports. All the investigated species of both monocot and eudicot groups had monad pollen units suggesting their primitiveness on the evolutionary scale except for the Rhododendron companulatum (Ericales), having evolutionarily advanced tetrad arrangement. The current study found primitive exine ornamentation in Ranunculales to advance in Asterales, Lamiales, Gentianales, and Boraginales and confirms the results of the previous studies. The data on the pollen morphological features of the studied species generated in the present study will help understand these important high-altitude plant species' reproductive biology and conservation aspects.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c79b87985b034174b6cd259eed3b9de62022-12-22T03:25:03ZengAcademicPresNotulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca0255-965X1842-43092022-08-0150310.15835/nbha50312787Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, IndiaBushan KUMAR0Kanwaljeet SINGH1Pankaj KUMAR2Zohra BATOOL3Shakti K. DHIMAN4Sumeet GAIROLA5CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Plant Sciences Division, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001, J&K; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), GhaziabadCSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Plant Sciences Division, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001, J&KCSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Plant Sciences Division, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001, J&K; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), GhaziabadCSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Plant Sciences Division, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001, J&K; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), GhaziabadCSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Plant Sciences Division, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001, J&KCSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Plant Sciences Division, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001, J&K; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad The present study investigated the palynological diversity of highly medicinal Rare, Endangered, and Threatened (RET) plant species dwelling in higher altitudes of Western Himalaya, India. The pollen morphology of 32 plant species covering 29 genera, 23 families, and 18 orders of Angiosperms was analyzed by Light Microscopy (LM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). The families of the studied plant species have been arranged and discussed following the evolutionary sequence as per the updated version of Angiosperm Phylogeny Group ІV. The studied pollen characters were found to be helpful in the delimitation of taxa at the species level. In the studied monocots, the species belonging to order Zingiberales, Asparagales, and Liliales followed the general trend of having primitive inaperturate to advance monosulcate pollen except for Alismatales which had inaperturate pollen and placed after the orders mentioned above in the APG ІV classification system. The pollen aperture of the eudicot group in the present study followed the evolutionary pattern from tricolpate to tricolporate and triporate, which corroborated previous reports. All the investigated species of both monocot and eudicot groups had monad pollen units suggesting their primitiveness on the evolutionary scale except for the Rhododendron companulatum (Ericales), having evolutionarily advanced tetrad arrangement. The current study found primitive exine ornamentation in Ranunculales to advance in Asterales, Lamiales, Gentianales, and Boraginales and confirms the results of the previous studies. The data on the pollen morphological features of the studied species generated in the present study will help understand these important high-altitude plant species' reproductive biology and conservation aspects. https://www.notulaebotanicae.ro/index.php/nbha/article/view/12787exine ornamentationpollen morphologyRET plantsScanning Electron MicroscopyWestern Himalaya |
| spellingShingle | Bushan KUMAR Kanwaljeet SINGH Pankaj KUMAR Zohra BATOOL Shakti K. DHIMAN Sumeet GAIROLA Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca exine ornamentation pollen morphology RET plants Scanning Electron Microscopy Western Himalaya |
| title | Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India |
| title_full | Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India |
| title_fullStr | Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India |
| title_short | Palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare, endangered, and threatened plants from Western Himalaya, India |
| title_sort | palynological diversity of highly medicinal rare endangered and threatened plants from western himalaya india |
| topic | exine ornamentation pollen morphology RET plants Scanning Electron Microscopy Western Himalaya |
| url | https://www.notulaebotanicae.ro/index.php/nbha/article/view/12787 |
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