Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, vol.30, no.4, pp.4031-4042, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
The physical and chemical properties of soil affect the nature of the vegetation grown on it. Hence
differences in parent material and soil characteristics
play important roles in determining the diversity and
distribution areas of plant communities. Genomic
plasticity emerges as an important player in adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Consequently, identifying adaptive characters and related
pathways is important for maintaining the efficiency
of natural ecosystems under different conditions. We
examined th relation between soil properties, genome size and morphology of the plant samples. We
reported the genome size of five species for the first
time examined by flow cytometry. The analyses
showed that genome sizes show variations between
the samples grown on different parent materials. We
examined putative influence of soil properties on nuclear DNA content and morphology of the plant samples. Among those features, CaCO3 and SOM content of the soil are of particular relevance in relation
to genome size and morphology of the samples.