Abstract
The common wild Pistacia species in Turkey areP. terebinthus L.,P. atlantica Desf. andP. eurycarpa Yalt. A total of 65Pistacia genotypes from different parts of Turkey weresurveyed and characterized phenotypically and morphologically for this study: 10P. eurycarpa genotypes from Siirt andGaziantep provinces, 45 P. atlanticaand 10 P. terebinthus genotypes fromAdana, Aydin and Manisa provinces. Their seeds were sampled and seedlings wereproduced to characterize as compared to the their leaves with leaf traits ofmaternal trees. A total of 30 characters (four tree, 19 leaf and sevennut) were used to characterize this collection, including ten quantitativecharacters and 20 qualitative characters. Both at the inter- andintra-specific level, the 65 genotypes displayed high diversity. Severalcharacters were found to be diagnostic at the species level among the threespecies. Correlations between characters were found for each species separately.Nut weight was positively correlated with terminal leaflet length and with nutdimensions in all three species. Morphological description of severalPistacia genotypes revealed inter-specific hybrids.
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