TY - JOUR ID - 529 TI - Study of morphological diffrentiation of leaf in males and females of Pistacia atlantica desf species in Arasbaran forests JO - Journal of Plant Research (Iranian Journal of Biology) JA - JPR LA - en SN - 2383-2592 AU - khorasani, mina AU - nosrati, houshang AU - Razbane haghighi, Ahmad AU - kelig, sedighe AD - AD - proffesor Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 27 IS - 4 SP - 605 EP - 612 KW - Pistacia atlantica KW - Leaf morphology KW - Dioecious plants KW - Arasbaran DO - 2748 N2 - Male and female individuals of dioecious plant such as Pistacia atlantica desf are difficult to recognize from each other without sexual organs e.g. flowers. In this study for identification of males and female plants used of the morphological variation of 180 leaves from 60 individuals of P. atlantica in Arasbaran frosts of North West Iran. Several the quantitative and qualitative characteristics morphologic were compared by spss softwar, the results of morphological analyses show that leaf length, leaf area, leaf width, terminal leaflet width, the presence of alternate leaflet and opposite leaflet and presence of triplet leaflet are in males and femals different significantly from each other. Discriminate analysis proved accuracy of distinction in individuals about 70.6% using morphological traits. In this study suggesting that application morphological characteristic of vegetative organs e.g. leaf can be helpful in sex differentiation in dioecious plant species at earlier stages before sexual reproductive organs appearance. UR - https://plant.ijbio.ir/article_529.html L1 - https://plant.ijbio.ir/article_529_e3bd0e47ef99b236bd706249e9e544c4.pdf ER -