Origin of the Texas Gulf coast island populations of Ambrosia psilostachya: a numerical study using terpenoid data.

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1972

Authors

Potter, J.L.
Mabry, T.J.

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Abstract

The volatile terpene and sesquiterpene lactone patterns for 20 populations af Ambrosia psilostachya from the Texas Mainland and Gulf Coast Islands and 7 populations of A. cumanensis from near Vera Cruz, Mexico, were determined and the resulting volatile terpene data were analyzed by numerical classification methods. The terpene data indicated that the Texas Gulf Coast islands populations of A. psilostachya are genetically closer to the Vera Cruz, Mexico populations of A. cumanensis that they are to the Texas mainland populations of A. psilostachya.

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p. 715-723.

Keywords

botany, species differentiation, ecological distribution, Ambrosia psilostachya, Ambrosia cumanensis

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