TY - JOUR AU - Kavcı, Esra AU - Martin, Esra AU - Eroğlu, Halil Erhan AU - Yıldırım, Fatih Serdar PY - 2023/02/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Chromosome number of some Satureja species from Turkey JF - Caryologia JA - Caryologia VL - 75 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.36253/caryologia-1660 UR - https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/caryologia/article/view/1660 SP - 13-18 AB - <p class="p1">The genus <em>Satureja</em> belonging to the Lamiaceae family includes about 200 species, generally aromatic, distributed in the Mediterranean basin. In genus <em>Satureja</em>, the chromosomal data were reported from only 26 species. In this study, it is aimed to eliminate the deficiencies in the chromosomal data of <em>Satureja</em> species, which are distributed in Turkey, which is center of origin and diversity of the genus <em>Satureja</em>. It was reported only one chromosome number (2<em>n</em> = 30), the first report for chromosome numbers of three taxa, the same chromosome count (excluding B-chromosomes) with previous report in only one species, and the new chromosome number in only one species. In conclusion, this study presented new data into the chromosomal records of genus <em>Satureja</em> that might be useful for interpreting or understanding relationships among the species. In addition, dysploidy and polyploidy variations might probably have played an important role in speciation. In this regard, the results contributed to some missing data in <em>Satureja</em> cytotaxonomy.</p> ER -