Cytology and Genetics 2011,
vol. 45,
no. 1, 33-37,
doi: https://www.doi.org/10.3103/S0095452711010075
Polymorphism of young (14–16 years), middle-aged (70–80 years) and old (120–150 years) plants and their seed embryos has been studied using 20 and 10 allozyme loci correspondingly in the population of Pinus pallasiana D. Don from Mountain Crimea. It was revealed that the old-aged trees had significantly lower level of expected heterozygosity than the young plants. The level of observed heterozygosity of embryos of the uneven-aged plants was slightly different among the embryo samples and significantly lower than in the samples of maternal trees. Supernumerary homozygotation of the embryos is caused by low level of cross-pollination in three studied samples of plants (tm = 0,537–0,637).
Keywords: Pinus pallasiana D.Don, population, age dynamics, genetic differentiation, Mountain Crimea