Mysterious chokeberries: new data on the diversity and phylogeny of Aronia Medik. (Rosaceae)

  • Alexey Shipunov Minot State University, Biology, 500 University Ave, Minot, ND
  • Sofia Gladkova Department of Biology, Moscow State University
  • Polina Timoshina Department of Biology, Moscow State University
  • Hye Ji Lee Minot State University, Biology, 500 University Ave, Minot, ND
  • Jinhee Choi Minot State University, Biology, 500 University Ave, Minot, ND
  • Sarah Despiegelaere Minot State University, Biology, 500 University Ave, Minot, ND
  • Bryan Connolly Framingham State University, Biology, 100 State St, Framingham, MA
Keywords: Aronia, Rosaceae, DNA, morphology, hybridity

Abstract

Aronia Medik. (chokeberry, Rosaceae) is a genus of woody shrubs with two or three North American species. Species boundaries and relationships between species of Aronia are frequently under question. The only European species in the genus, A. mitschurinii A.K.Skvortsov & Maitul., is suggested to be an inter-generic hybrid. In order to clarify the relationships between species of Aronia, we performed several morphometric and molecular analyses and found that the molecular and morphological diversity within data on American Aronia is low, and species boundaries are mostly not clearly expressed. Whereas morphology is able to separate American species from A. mitschurinii, there is no support for such discrimination from the molecular data; our analyses did not reveal evidence of A. mitschurinii hybrid origin. We believe that higher-resolution markers are needed to resolve species boundaries and putative hybridization events.

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Published
2019-10-23
How to Cite
Shipunov, A., Gladkova, S., Timoshina, P., Lee, H. J., Choi, J., Despiegelaere, S., & Connolly, B. (2019). Mysterious chokeberries: new data on the diversity and phylogeny of Aronia Medik. (Rosaceae). European Journal of Taxonomy, (570). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.570