Agostina B. Sassone- Doctor in Biology
- PostDoc Position at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Agostina B. Sassone
- Doctor in Biology
- PostDoc Position at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
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Dr. Agostina B. Sassone is interested in elucidating the evolutionary history among South American garlics (AMARYLLIDACEAE-ALLIOIDEAE).
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June 2017 - November 2017
May 2016 - August 2016
August 2016 - March 2017
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- Subject: Vascular Plant Biology.
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May 2012 - March 2017
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Nothoscordum Kunth is a New World genus distributed from the United States into South America, where its highest diversity is found in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Uruguay. The circumscription of the genus, as well as the taxa included, has been a source of confusion. The large number of taxa described, combined with incomplete keys...
Hordeum bulbosum, the closest relative of barley (H. vulgare), is an important source of resistance genes for cereals in the Triticeae. This perennial and mainly outcrossing species occurs with two cytotypes: diploids thrive in the western and central parts of the Mediterranean, while autotetraploids extend from Greece mainly eastwards to western A...
Subfamily Amaryllidoideae is one of the three within the family Amaryllidaceae and is of great economic importance. The genus Zephyranthes Herb. includes ca. 170 species, currently circumscribed to 7 subgenera. Most of the species and subgenera have a controversial taxonomy, and taxa circumscription has been a source of confusion for various reason...
Editorial of the Special Issue: Amaryllidaceae
Introdução e objetivos: A Serra do Itapetinga abriga um dos mais importantes remanescentes de Floresta Atlântica da Macrometrópole Paulista, a região mais populosa do Brasil. No contexto do tratamento monográfico de Nothoscordum para o país, uma nova espécie com distribuição atual restrita à Serra do Itapetinga foi identificada, e é aqui descrita e...
The family Amaryllidaceae includes species distributed all over the Globe, with centers of highertaxonomic diversity and species richness in South America, Asia, and southern Africa (Stevens, 2001 onwards). The family is divided into three subfamilies and includes ca. 2200 species, of which 1200 are part of Allioideae, > 1100 belong to Amaryllidoid...
Oxalis section Palmatifoliae (wood sorrel) includes five species that are well differentiated morphologically. A previous population study in one of the species (O. laciniata) suggested a complex phylogeographic history and highlighted the need to explore the genetic variability of all the species in the section. Thus, we performed a population lev...
Atacamallium, a new genus in Amaryllidaceae‐Allioideae‐Leucocoryneae, is introduced with a description of its type Atacamallium minutiflorum, endemic to the coastal Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences, along with morphological characters and its distribution pattern, support the new genus and place it as a putat...
The cultivation and domestication of plants are human-driven processes that change the biology and attributes of a plant. Ipheion uniflorum is a bulbous geophyte known as Spring Starflower whose cultivation dates back to the first half of the 19th century. At least seven cultivars have been developed from natural stands. However, comparative analys...
Elgénero Zephyranthes Herb. (Amaryllidaceae) cuenta con aproximadamente 170 especies, actualmente circunscriptas a 7 subgéneros. Dentro de la flora nativa en el área en cuestión nos ocuparemos de cuatro especies, tres del subg. Zephyranthes: Z.minima Herb., Z.tubispatha (L'Hér.) Herb. y Z. barrosiana (Hunz.&DiFulvio) S.C.Arroyo, y una del subg. Hab...
Zephyranthes bifida (Herb.) Nic. García & Meerow (Amaryllidaceae), es una especie con inflorescencias multifloras, con flores vistosas, infundibuliformes, generalmente rosadas o rojas. Su distribución abarca desde el noreste de Argentina, zonas limítrofes de Paraguay, Uruguay y el sur de Brasil. Recientemente ha sido reubicada en el género Zephyran...
Speciation proceeds through mechanisms that promote reproductive isolation and shape the extent of genetic variation in natural populations, and thus, its study is essential to understand the evolutionary processes leading to increased biodiversity. Chromosomal rearrangements are known to facilitate reproductive isolation by hybrid sterility and fa...
The establishment of species boundaries has been a difficult task for biologists since the beginning of classifications. Within South American Allioideae (= Alliaceae), the delimitation of genera and species has long been a major challenge. Consequently, species-level nomenclature in these groups has been difficult to elucidate. Ipheion and Tristag...
The urge to organise the world around us is an essential part of human nature. Naming and categorising enable us to store and access information ef ciently. The need to name and categorise extends to the natural world and, in particular, to living organisms. The science underpinning this area of knowledge is called Taxonomy, and is as old as humani...
Rúgolo de Agrasar recognized two varieties of Deyeuxia velutina (D. velutina var. velutina and D. velutina var. nardifolia) based on leaf sheath indumentum, lemma length, and leaf blade direction. However, taxonomic delimitation has been difficult due to occasional overlapping characters. To assess the infraspecific delimitation of D. velutina, we...
Within grasses, the tribe Stipeae is highly specialized by the presence of only one fruit per spikelet and characterized by the diversity in the ornamentation of the floret. Our aim was to analyze similarities and differences based on multi-and univariate analyses among closely related species in American Stipeae: Jarava species with plumose-like a...
Botanists, a section of the broad universe of researchers in Biology, are intensive users of herbaria. Presumably, all botanists use herbaria, with greater or lesser frequency and intensity, in the development of their research. In this article, we will try to prove this statement. For this purpose, an institutional history of Botany and herbaria i...
A new species from the Andean region of northwestern Argentina is described and illustrated: Sisyrinchium humahuacense. This species can be distinguish from its closest related species by three main characters: the presence of a conspicuous horizontal rhizome, the colour of the flowers and the presence of rudimentary leaves not splitting in fibers....
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) was established by the Conference of Parties in 2002 to decrease the loss of plant diversity, reduce poverty and contribute to sustainable development. To achieve this overarching goal, the GSPC has established a series of targets, one of which is to ensure that plant diversity is well understood, s...
Tristagma Poepp. (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae) is morphologically characterized by the unique combination of a spathe composed by two bracts connate at the base, floral tube always covering the ovary and staminal filaments disposed in two series. Genus and species circumscriptions within Tristagma have been a source of confusion because of the diffi...
At present the subfamily Allioideae is included within the Amaryllidaceae, which is an economic important bulb crop subfamily that includes onion, garlic, and ornamental species worldwide. The Allioideae includes four tribes geographically disjunct namely: Allieae, widespread in the northern hemisphere, tribe Tulbaghieae distributed in South Africa...
As part of a revision of Oxalis for the Flora Argentina, the types of all the relevant names for the country were assessed. Seven names were inadvertently lectotypified before 2001, but require second-step lectotypifications. As a whole, eleven lectotypes (first and second step) are designated here.
The tribe Leucocoryneae is taxonomically and cytogenetically complex, mainly due to its extraordinary morphological and karyological variation. Robertsonian translocations had long been recognized as a central factor contributing to karyotype diversity within the Leucocoryneae, but so far no major tendency prevailing on the observed complexity of k...
The type of the generic name Ipheion Rafinesque is Milla uniflora Graham but the same specific epithet had been used in Triteleia by Lindley a few years earlier for the same species with a different type. Confusion ensued concerning the correct author citation for the species under Ipheion. A taxonomic history of the name Ipheion uniflorum (Graham)...
The circumscription of genus Tristagma Poepp. has been controversial since its description, so Tristagma species have been considered under different genera of subfamily Allioideae. The aim of this thesis is to present a multidisciplinary study of Tristagma, in order to define the number of species, contributing to a better knowledge of the subfami...
Tristagma is a South American genus distributed in Argentina and Chile. Species circumscription in Tristagma has been a source of confusion for various reasons; e.g., generic concepts, nomenclatural inconsistencies, and doubtful species. As a first step towards a revision of Tristagma, the nomenclatural history is reviewed. Following an extensive r...
The monotypic genus Latace has been formerly treated under its related genera Leucocoryne or Nothoscordum. The genus Zoellnerallium, on the other hand, was established to include the atypical Nothoscordum andinum (= Ornithogalum andinum) and, later another similar species, namely Nothoscordum serenense, was also placed in this genus. In this contri...
Oxalis secc. Alpinae incluye aproximadamente 17 especies que se distribuyen a lo largo de la Cordillera de los Andes, desde el sur de Perú hasta el centro de Argentina y Chile. Esta sección constituye un grupo monofilético según datos moleculares y se encuentra en revisión taxonómica. En el presente trabajo se analiza la variación morfológica de fo...
El género Tristagma se incluye en la familia Amaryllidaceae, subfamilia Allioideae, los tratamientos taxonómicos son parciales y no reflejan con certidumbre cuáles son los límites genéricos, ni el número preciso de las especies que lo conforman. Tristagma posee dos centros de diversidad específica, uno restringido a la región patagónica argentina,...
Based on morphological, anatomical, and phylogenetic studies within subfamily Allioideae, a new circumscription of tribe Leucocoryneae is presented including six American genera: Beauverdia, Ipheion, Leucocoryne, Nothoscordum, Tristagma and Zoellnerallium. A synopsis of tribe Leucocoryneae, comprising its description (as amended), a key to tribes,...
Based on morphological evidence, we resurrect the genus Beauverdia to include species of Ipheion section Hirtellum. All species now included in Beauverdia were also treated as part of Ipheion, Nothoscordum, or Tristagma. As here circumscribed, Beauverdia (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae, Gilliesieae) is a South American genus that is found in Argentina,...
Ipheion, as recognized by Guaglianone (Darwiniana 17:159–242, 1972), is a small genus of the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae, tribe Gilliesieae endemic to South America. Since 1800, the species of Ipheion were treated under Beauverdia, Brodiaea, Milla, Nothoscordum, Tristagma or Triteleia. Nowadays, some species of Ipheion are treated a...
Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 48 (Supl.) 2013
Ipheion es un género que cuenta con 8 especies caracterizadas por inflorescencia uniflora, espata formada por dos brácteas fusionadas (total o parcialmente) y frutos humifusos. La circunscripción de Ipheion es controversial, sus especies fueron consideradas en diversos géneros, dentro de los cuales se encuentran Tristagma y Nothoscordum. El objetiv...
