Phylogeny problems of the genus Vaccinium L. and ways to solve them

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Abstract

The genus Vaccinium includes almost 500 species, among which there are economically important species of cranberries V. macrocarpon Ait. and V. oxycoccos L., lingonberries V. vitis-idaea L., bilberries V. myrtillus L. and blueberries V. uliginosum L., V. angustifolium Ait., V. corymbosum L., V. virgatum Ait. Despite the fact that many of these species were actively used by humans in medicine and food, their active selection began in the 20th century, in connection with which a classification of the genus according to morphological characters was developed. Many of these data remain relevant to the present day. The development of the ideas of molecular phylogeny prompted a revision of the old classification, identifying a number of difficulties that do not allow one to unambiguously determine phylogenetic relationships within the genus. Today, the genus includes 33 sections, while the species composition of the sections and the evolutionary relationships between them remain controversial. This review discusses various approaches to the study of the structure of the genus Vaccinium: from classical to phylogenomic, the main results of using these approaches and their prospects.

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Roman R. Zhidkin

Saint Petersburg State University

Author for correspondence.
Email: zhidkinr@gmail.com

Student

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Tatyana V. Matveeva

Saint Petersburg State University

Email: radishlet@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8569-6665
SPIN-code: 3877-6598
Scopus Author ID: 7006494611

Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Professor

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. The phylogenetic tree obtained from the analysis of the matK and ITS sequences of various species of the Ericaceae family based on the data of K. Kron et al. [2], supplemented by us

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3. Fig. 2. Phylogenetic tree of economically important species of the genus Vaccinium, built on the basis of the SSR loci of mitochondria and chloroplasts [32]. I — Species belonging in the Oxycoccus section, II — Vitis-idaea, III — Batodendron, IV — Cyanococcus

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4. Fig. 3. Whole genome duplications in cranberry evolution based on pooled data [15, 37]. I — represents a γ-triplication, II — represents a Vm-α duplication, both of which formed the modern Vaccinium genome; III — Dl-α duplication of the genome characteristic of the genus Diospyros; IV — Ad-α duplication of the Actinidia genome

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