Jj. Doyle et al., Confirmation of shared and divergent genomes in the Glycine tabacina polyploid complex (Leguminosae) using histone H3-D sequences, SYST BOT, 25(3), 2000, pp. 437-448
Glycine tabacina, a wild perennial relative of soybean, comprises a widespr
ead polyploid complex in Australia and islands of the Pacific Ocean. Data f
rom a single-copy nuclear locus, histone H3-D, confirm the existence of two
polyploid races. Plants of one of these (AAB'B') are nonstoloniferous and
have linear leaflets. One of the genomes of this race is that of an A-genom
e diploid, identified by the histone data most closely with a race of G. to
mentella. Its other genome (B'B') was donated by a nonstoloniferous diploid
species that is sister to all of the remaining B-genome species, which are
stoloniferous. Plants of the second race of polyploid G. tabacina (BBB'B')
are stoloniferous, have ovate leaflets, and combine a B' genome with a gen
ome of the core B-genome diploid group. The likely source of the shared B'
genome is a species previously referred to as G, sp. aff tabacina, that is
here formally named Glycine stenophita.