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ON SPECIES OF Calotropis R. Br.: EVOLUTION IN ACTION AND LIVE
STANDARDS FOR CLIMBER CROPS.
By
• Shri Niwas Singh
• Sr. Lecturer,
Department of Agricultural Botany,
Baba Raghav Das P.G. College,
Deoria – 274001 (U.P.). India.
Email: [email protected]
Presented at lake2010,
IIsc, Bangalore.
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Introduction: Calotropis
• A medicinal weed of asclepiadaceae family.
• A xerophytic plant with many uses and potential. Grows well under normal
mesic conditions.
• On the way to domestication.
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4 types of Calotropis
• 1. C. gigantea blue (cgb)
• 2. C. gigantea white (cgw)
• 3. C. procera blue (cpb)
• 4. C. procera white (cpw)
• The question is that whether these four types could be considered as four
different species?
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1. C. gigantea blue (cgb)
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2. C. gigantea white (cgw)
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3. C. procera blue (cpb)
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4. C. procera white (cpw)
A bit closer to what I wanted to show here.
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Both gigantea & procera (blue)
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Cg (white and blue)
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Methods
• 1. study morphological features,
• 2. examine scatter plots,
• 3. look into karyotypes and the cytological behaviour of chromosomes,
• 4. try transplantation experiments under uniform environmental conditions and
• 5. do breeding experiments to check whether the characteristic features show segregation in the offspring.
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Floral parts of cgw & cgb
K
C
A
G
cgw
cgb
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Floral parts of cgb, cgw & cpb
cgbcgw cpb
K
C
A
G
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cgw cgb cpb
K Color white blue less blue
sepals big small very small
C Color white blue blue+white
Petals long a bit small smallest
A Corona Size Medium long small
Corona Shapesmooth
curvesmooth
curve pointed
Corona color white blue blue+white
Translator small long smallest
corpusculum light black dark black very light black
Retinaculum small long smallest
Pollinium small long smallest
G Style length long long short
Style color white blue white
Gynostegium small big small
Ovary big big short
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Androecium comparison
Nectar content
Corona Size Medium long small
Corona Shape smooth curve smooth curve pointed
Corona color white blue blue+white
Translator small long smallest
corpusculum light black dark black very light black
Retinaculum small long smallest
Pollinium small long smallest
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Deoria, Eastern U.P.
1. C. gigantea blue (cgb)2. C. gigantea white (cgw)3. C. procera blue (cpb)
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Cgb & cgw in Deoria
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Ghazipur, Eastern U.P.
1. C. gigantea blue2. C. gigantea white 3. C. procera blue4. C. procera white
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Ghazipur
Cpw near Bir Abdul Hamid Setu
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Tentative dendrogram
? Showing speciation
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Sponge-gourd on Calotropis
A live standard.
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Evolution of syncarpy in cpb
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3 leaves from a node
Opposite decussate is normal.
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Idea of pl ht of cgw
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Coppicing capacity of cgb
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Idea of pl ht of cgb
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Cgw on gate (auspicious)
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Fuelwood for the poor
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Scatter plot between leaf length and leaf width of C. gigantea (blue) and C. procera (blue)
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CONCLUSIONS
• Possible comparisons between:
• 1 cgb & 2 cgw
• 1 cgb & 3 cpb
• 1 cgb & 4 cpw
• 2 cgw & 3 cpb
• 2 cgw & 4 cpw
• 3 cpb & 4 cpw
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CONCLUSIONS
• Cytotypes, ecotypes or different species, cgb & cgw are suitable for multi-storey cropping.
• Cgw suitable for economic exploitation as it is considered auspicious.
• By ignoring differences, we are under-estimating our biodiversity.
• Splitter/lumper, twiddledee-dwiddledum -> plant breeding.
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Terms for Floral Parts
Collective term Term for Individual unit Symbol in FF
Involucre of bracts Bract Br
Epicalyx vuqokány i qat Bracteole vuqokány Brl or Epik
Calyx okány i qat Sepal okány K
Corolla nyi qat Petal ny C
Androecium i qeax Stamen i qadsl j A
Gynoecium t k; kax Pistil, Carpel L=hdsl j ] v.Mi G
Floral formula i q"Ik l w=
Floral Diagram i q"Ik vkj s[ k
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bee on gigantea
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Calotropis gigantea (white)
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Calotropis gigantea (blue)
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Calotropis procera from inet
Notice the openness of corolla
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Calotropis gigantea
Excellent coppicing capacity
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Calotropis procera
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Preying mantis on Calotropis
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Preying mantis on Calotropis
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Preying mantis on Calotropis
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Preying mantis on Calotropis
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Calotropis procera white
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Calotropis gigantea blue
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Calotropis procera (blue)
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Idea of pollinator (niche) diversification
• Pollinators (insects) are species as well as tribe specific.Calotropis procera (Ait.) Ait. f. ssp. hamiltonii (Wight) Aliis regarded as Xylocopa blossom (Melittophilous),
• Glosscsonema varians (Stocks) Hook. f. and Oxystelma esculentum (Linn.f.) R Brown as bee and wasp blossom (Melittophilous),
• Pentatropis nivalis (Gmel.) Field and Wood, Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. ,and Pergularia tomentosa L. as bee and moth blossom (Melittophilous and Phalaenophilous).
• Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb. as fly blossom (Myophilous) and
• Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forssk.) Decne.as fly and beetle blossom (Myophilous and Cantharophilous).
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From inet
Garlands of Calotropis flowers
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Calotropis procera (blue)
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POLLINATION ECOLOGY OF SOME ASCLEPIADS (ASCLEPIADACEAE) FROM PAKISTAN
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• POLLINATION ECOLOGY OF SOME ASCLEPIADS (ASCLEPIADACEAE) FROM PAKISTAN• Ali, Tahir (1994) POLLINATION ECOLOGY OF SOME ASCLEPIADS (ASCLEPIADACEAE) • FROM PAKISTAN. PhD thesis, University of Karachi, Karachi.• HTML• 18Kb
• Abstract• Pollination ecology of 10 Asclepiads viz. Calotropis procrea (Ait.) Ait.f. ssp. hamiltonii, Glossonema varians (Stocks) Hook.f. oxystelma esoulentum • (Linn. f.) R. Brown, Pentatlropis nivalis (Gmel.), Field and Wood, Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov., Pergularia tomentosa L. of tribe • Asclepiadeae and Caralluma edulis (Edgew.) Benth., Carralluma tuberoulata N.E.Brown, Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb. and Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forssk.) • Decne. Of tribe Ceropegieae has been carried out from Pakistan. In this connection floral phenology and morphology, location of germination locus, • in-vitro pollinium germination, floral visitors and their pollnium load, level of pollinator activity in natural populations, mechanism of • pollinarium removal and pollinium insertion, pollen ovule ratio and ratio of pollen grains per pollinium to ovules per carpel have been studied. • Andromonoecy is being reported for the first time in Glossonema varians (Stocks) Hook f. and in the family. Flower life of the studied taxa is • usually short ranges only from 1-3 days. A variety of structural adaptations have been revealed in response to the mode of pollination, • particularly in pollinium morphology and orientation, stigmatic chamber, coronal elements, nectaries and nectar location and presentation. It has • been demonstrated that pollinarium removal and pollinum insertion are specialized processes rather than a chance and exhibit definite • relationship with the specialized floral modifications. Apart from presence of residual corpusculum and narrowness of stigmatic chambers. • other three factors like closing of stigmatic chamber. presence of glandular papillae in the stigmatic chamber, and anther wings are reported • to be responsible for the proper and successful insertion of the pollinium into the stigmatic chamber. A correlation between pollinarium removal and
• pollinium insertion exist and thus revealed that pollinium insertion rates are the positive function of removal rates. Pollinators (insects) are species as well as tribe specific. Calotropis procera (Ait.) Ait. f. ssp.
• hamiltonii (Wight) Ali is regarded as Xylocopa blossom (Meljttophilous), • Glosscsonema varians (Stocks) Hook. f. and Oxystelma esculentum
(Linn.f.) R Brown as bee and wasp blossom (Melittophilous),PentatropiS nivalis (Gmel.) Field and wood, Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. ,and Pergularia tomentosa L. as bee and moth blossom (Melittophilous and Phalaenophilous). Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb. As fly blossom (Myophilous) and Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forssk.) Decne.as fly and beetle blossom (Myophilous and Cantharophilous).The germination locus of the pollinium seems to be correlated with the flower structure and pollination mechanism of the species. Pollinium of each species required a specific sugar concentration for optimal germination (in vitro pollinium germination) which is more or less similar to its floral nectar sugar concentration. A relationship has also been observed between pollinium vigor (in - vitro), pollinarium