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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (13): 71-76.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0435

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A New Variety of Scutellaria scordifolia

LI Liandi1(), ZHANG Shuzi1, ZHANG Yefei2, GUO Jiaojiao1, REN Qiwen1, BI Jun1   

  1. 1Hebei Xiaowutai Mountain Forest Ecosystem Research Station/ Hebei Academy of Forestry and Grassland Science, Shijiazhuang 050061
    2Hebei Xiaowutai Mountain National Nature Reserve Management Center, Yuxian, Hebei 075700
  • Received:2021-04-23 Revised:2022-03-10 Online:2022-05-05 Published:2022-06-08

Abstract:

This study is to determine a new variety of Scutellaria scordifolia with white corolla, which is found in Xiaowutai Mountain area of Hebei Province and not recorded before. The new variety can provide a new case for the genetic variation research of plant flower color. Through information inquiry, field visit and laboratory determination, the habitat conditions and distribution of the new variety and the original variant were investigated in Xiaowutai Mountain Nature Reserve of Hebei Province. The flavonoid content and chlorophyll content of the new variety and the original variant were compared and determined in laboratory. By 3 years’ study, we found that there were obvious differences in corolla color between S. scordifolia with white corolla and S. scordifolia distributed nearby, and white corolla could be inherited stably. The leaf color of S. scordifolia with white corolla was slightly lighter, and the chlorophyll content was slightly lower than that of the original variant. The content of flavonoids was about 1.4 times that of the original variant. The S. scordifolia with white corolla had thin and weak lateral branches and more slender lateral roots, significantly different from those of the nearby S. scordifolia, which had fewer and stronger lateral branches and lateral roots. According to information inquiry and field visit, no record on S. scordifolia with white corolla was found. The population distribution characteristics of S. scordifolia with white corolla do not conform to the genetic law of recessive gene expression, and there are no other heterozygotes. S. scordifolia with white corolla is obviously different from S. spectabilis recorded in Flora of Sichuan and four varieties of S. scordifolia reported by Flora of China and Flora of Hebei. Therefore, the S. scordifolia with white corolla is a new variety, and is named S. scordifolia var. white corolla. The new variety is distributed in Donggou at Shanjiankou in Xiaowutai Mountain area.

Key words: Xiaowutai Mountain area, Scutellaria scordifolia, variety, white corolla

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