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Abstract

A Leaf Morphometrics Comparison between the Deciduous Plane Tree Platanus orientalis L. and Its Ever-Growing Mutation Platanus orientalis L. var. cretica  †

by
Ioustini Vagia
1,
Nikolaos Tourvas
1,
Anna-Maria Farsakoglou
1,
Andreas Doulis
2 and
Filippos A. Aravanopoulos
1,3,*
1
Laboratory of Forest Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
2
Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology & Genomic Resources, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Plants & Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization, GR-71307 Heraklion, Greece
3
Hellenic Agricultural Academy, 118 55 Athens, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
Presented at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests—Exploring New Discoveries and New Directions in Forests, 15–31 October 2022; Available online: https://iecf2022.sciforum.net/.
Environ. Sci. Proc. 2022, 22(1), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/IECF2022-13091
Published: 21 October 2022
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Forests—Exploring New Discoveries and New Directions in Forests)
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Abstract

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Platanus orientalis L. var. cretica is the ever-growing mutant of Platanus orientalis L. (plane tree) and its population consists of few trees, growing in isolation on the island of Crete, in the Aegean Archipelago of Greece, while the typical plane tree form is ubiquitous to the island and mainly present in streams and ravines. In the present study, 23 mutant and adjacent typical plane tree pairs were studied. Four leaf morphometry parameters were measured using the ImageJ software in order to derive five independent of size leaf shape ratios. Paired comparisons using Kruskal-Wallis tests were conducted via the SPSS software. The analyses showed no general tendency of statistically significant differences regarding studied parameters between pairs. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) in the majority of the analyzed ratios were detected in 35% of the studied pairs. Our results show that the leaf morphometrics present notable phenotypic variation which can be valuable in diversity studies. Nevertheless, they are not particularly useful in distinguishing P. orientalis L. and the ever-growing P. orientalis L. var. cretica.

Supplementary Materials

The presentation material of this work is available online at https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/IECF2022-13091/s1.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, F.A.A.; Methodology, F.A.A., A.D.; Software, F.A.A., I.V.; Writing-original draft preparation, I.V., F.A.A.; Writing-review and editing, I.V., N.T., A.-M.F., A.D., F.A.A.; Supervision, F.A.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The research was partially supported by project Crown Genome, funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Greece and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

Raw data will become available at the Dryad Digital Repository upon completion of this study.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Vagia, I.; Tourvas, N.; Farsakoglou, A.-M.; Doulis, A.; Aravanopoulos, F.A. A Leaf Morphometrics Comparison between the Deciduous Plane Tree Platanus orientalis L. and Its Ever-Growing Mutation Platanus orientalis L. var. cretica . Environ. Sci. Proc. 2022, 22, 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECF2022-13091

AMA Style

Vagia I, Tourvas N, Farsakoglou A-M, Doulis A, Aravanopoulos FA. A Leaf Morphometrics Comparison between the Deciduous Plane Tree Platanus orientalis L. and Its Ever-Growing Mutation Platanus orientalis L. var. cretica . Environmental Sciences Proceedings. 2022; 22(1):38. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECF2022-13091

Chicago/Turabian Style

Vagia, Ioustini, Nikolaos Tourvas, Anna-Maria Farsakoglou, Andreas Doulis, and Filippos A. Aravanopoulos. 2022. "A Leaf Morphometrics Comparison between the Deciduous Plane Tree Platanus orientalis L. and Its Ever-Growing Mutation Platanus orientalis L. var. cretica " Environmental Sciences Proceedings 22, no. 1: 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/IECF2022-13091

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