Habitats, Plant Diversity, Morphology, Anatomy, and Molecular Phylogeny of (Popov) Akhani & Roalson.

(Popov) Akhani & Roalson is listed in the Red Data Book of Kazakhstan as a rare species with a limited distribution, occurring in small populations in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The aim of this study is to deepen the understanding of the ecological conditions of its habitats, the floristic composition of its associated plant communities, the species' morphological and anatomical characteristics, and its molecular phylogeny, as well as to identify the main threats to its survival. The ecological conditions of the habitats include coastal sandy plains and the slopes of chinks and denudation plains with gray-brown desert soils and bozyngens on the Mangyshlak Peninsula and the Ustyurt Plateau at altitudes ranging from -3 to 270 m above sea level.

Kazakhstan Has an Unexpected Diversity of Medicinal Plants of the Genus (Acoraceae) and Could Be a Cradle of the Triploid Species .

The group, or sweet flag, includes important medicinal plants and is classified into three species: (diploid), (tetraploid), and (sterile triploid of hybrid origin). Members of the group are famous as components of traditional Indian medicine, and early researchers suggested the origin of the sweet flag in tropical Asia. Subsequent research led to an idea of the origin of the triploid in the Amur River basin in temperate Asia, because this was the only region where both diploids and tetraploids were known to co-occur and be capable of sexual reproduction.

and -Surprisingly Diverse Old Steppe Species, Showing a Clear Geographical Barrier in the Area of Lake Zaysan.

Polymorph s.l. from monotypic sect.

Karyotype and genome size variation in white-flowered sect. (Ranunculaceae).

Comparative karyomorphological analyses of six out of the eight white-flowered species of Eranthissect.Shibateranthis have been carried out. All studied specimens of , , , and had a somatic chromosome number 2 = 16 with basic chromosome number = 8.

Simultaneous TALEN-mediated knockout of chrysanthemum DMC1 genes confers male and female sterility.

Genome editing has become one of the key technologies for plant breeding. However, in polyploid species such as chrysanthemum, knockout of all loci of multiple genes is needed to eliminate functional redundancies. We identified six cDNAs for the CmDMC1 genes involved in meiotic homologous recombination in chrysanthemum.

An integrative taxonomic approach reveals a new species of (Ranunculaceae) in North Asia.

A new endemic species, , is described from the Republic of Buryatia and Irkutsk Province, Russia. It belongs to Eranthis section Shibateranthis and is morphologically similar to and . An integrative taxonomic approach, based on cytogenetical, molecular and biochemical analyses, along with morphological data, was used to delimit this new species.