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    Biology and fertility of soils 9 (1990), S. 110-118 
    ISSN: 1432-0789
    Keywords: Kuehneltiella terricola gen. nov., sp. nov. ; Soil ciliates ; Colpodidae ; Systematics ; Evolution ; Australia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Geosciences , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary The morphology and biology of the colpodid ciliate Kuehneltiella terricola gen. nov., sp. nov. has been investigated using living organisms, various silver impregnation methods, and scanning electron microscopy. The new species has been isolated in soil from central Australia and might be endemic to this continent. The new genus Kuehneltiella differs from its nearest relative, Bresslaua, in having a right oral polykinetid composed of a single row of dikinetids. A reinvestigation of Lynn's slides of Bresslaua insidiatrix showed that, contrary to the statement of Lynn (1979), this species has a typic colpodid right oral polykinetid, i.e., composed of many short, disordered kineties. A brief review of the literature suggests that simple, single-rowed, right oral polykinetids are apomorphic in the colpodids s. str. Further, this special character has obviously evolved independently several times within the class Colpodea and even within the colpodids s. str. An illustrated key to the genera of the family Colpodidae is provided.
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    Biology and fertility of soils 9 (1990), S. 95-100 
    ISSN: 1432-0789
    Keywords: Assulina-Valkanovia ; Testacea ; Polymorphism ; Genotypes ; Evolution ; Spruce forest ; Sphagnum
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    Topics: Biology , Geosciences , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary The taxonomy and evolution of the Assulina-Valkanovia complex were investigated in a spruce forest soil which included a Sphagnum plot (GDR, Thuringia). In both habitats Assulina muscorum occurred in two colour forms (brown and colourless) and four shapes. A quantified phenospectrum from Assulina muscorum was obtained. The four shapes were distributed differently between the brown and the colourless forms in Sphagnum and soil. The shell measurements showed statistically significant differences between the brown and the colourless forms. Even between the two brown populations there were some significant differences. Each of the four shape types of brown and of colourless Assulina can be kept in clonal cultures for some time. However, without selection, single cultures eventually revert to mixed types. The four shape types show different degrees of stability. These colour and shape forms are genotypes, which can also occur for short periods in the natural habitats. The brown populations in Sphagnum and in the soil were dominated by different shape types during the period of investigation. Valkanovia elegans cannot be distinguished from Assulina muscorum type 4, but Valkanovia can inhabit both upper and lower soil horizons, whereas Assulina and its forms lives exclusively in the upper horizon (litter). Valkanovia from the lower horizon is constant in clonal culture. The conclusion of the present investigation is that there are stable and unstable constellations within a changeable genome, which give asexual groups both a taxonomic structure and a continuum of forms. Selection can increase stability, by polygenic control of features.
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    Plant and soil 82 (1984), S. 337-357 
    ISSN: 1573-5036
    Keywords: Evolution ; Grain legumes ; Induced mutations ; Mutation breeding ; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Summary Grain legumes are an important group of crop plants. They provide an essential source of protein food for many developing countries, but their production has gone down in favour of more profitable crops like cereals. Therefore, genetic improvement of grain legumes is urgently needed. The primary aim of grain legume breeding must be the increase of production through adaptation to more advanced cropping schemes and reduction of crop losses. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation as developed by natural evolution does not always seem to be compatible with the needed substantial increase in yield: It is not supplying sufficient nitrogen and supplementation by fertilizer is rather uneconomic. By genetic manipulation of the plant's regulatory system nitrogen fixation may become more effective and tolerant to high soil nitrogen levels. Through a number of mutation breeding projects in different countries involving all important grain legume species it has been proven that mutation induction is a good tool for supplementing the genetic variation available from natural evolution and from selection by man. High-yielding cultivars have been developed from induced mutants, which eventually also possess a more efficient nitrogen fixation capacity.
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