Biogeography of Asiatic Brassiceae

Herbert Hurka, Nikolai Friesen, Barbara Neuffer

About 70 genera are reported from northern Asia, a considerable amount of which are endemic to this region. Two thirds are mono- to oligotypic genera, and only about 20 genera comprise three or more species. This taxonomic situation and the paleoenvironmental history led us to assume that some of the present day Brassicaceae in northern Asia represent preglacial elements, and others may have evolved recently in postglacial times. We study molecular phylogenies to elucidate the origin and age of northern Asian Brassicaceae in cooperation with the South Siberian Botanical Garden of Barnaul, Russia.
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Cooperations:

Prof. Michael Markov (University Tver, Russia)

Prof. Alexander Schmakov (South Siberian Botanical Garden, Barnaul, Russia)
Dr. Dmitri German (South Siberian Botanical Garden, Barnaul, Russia)
Dr. Sergej Smirnov (South Siberian Botanical Garden, Barnaul, Russia)

Batlai Oyuntsetseg, Mongolian State University, Mongolia

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