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    DNA barcoding in native plants of the Labiatae (Lamiaceae) family from Chios Island (Greece) and the adjacent Cesme-Karaburun Peninsula (Turkey)
    (Wiley, 2012) Theodoridis, Spyros; Stefanaki, Anastasia; Tezcan, Meltem; Akı, Cüneyt; Kokkini, Stella; Vlachonasios, Konstantinos E.
    The plant family Labiatae (Lamiaceae) is known for its fine medicinal and aromatic herbs like lavender, mint, oregano, sage and thyme and is a rich source of essential oils for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry. Besides its great economic importance, the Labiatae family contributes significantly to the endemic flora of Greece and Turkey. Owing to its economic and biological significance and to the difficult identification based on morphological characters of several of its taxa, the Labiatae family is an ideal case for developing DNA barcodes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of DNA barcoding on a local scale in discriminating Labiatae species in Chios Island (Greece) and the adjacent Cesme-Karaburun Peninsula (Turkey). We chose three cpDNA regions (matK, rbcL, trnH-psbA) that were proposed by previous studies and tested them either as single region or as multiregion barcodes based on the criteria determined by Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL). Our results show that matK and trnH-psbA taken as useful in discriminating species of the Labiatae, for the species we examined, as any multiregion combination. matK and trnH-psbA could serve as single-region barcodes for Labiatae species contributing to the conservation and the trade control of valuable plant resources.
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    Phytogeographic versus political borders: european union's lifelong learning programme towards a common concept in the East Aegean (E. Greece, W. Turkey)
    (2010) Stefanaki, Anastasia; Aki, Cüneyt; Vlachonasios, Konstantinos; Kokkini, Stella
    This article presents a bilateral cooperation between School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and Department of Biology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey), under the auspices of the European Lifelong Learning Programme-Erasmus. An Erasmus placement grant was provided to a doctoral student of Aristotle University, for the study of the affinities of Labiatae plants between Chios Island [East Aegean Islands (EAI), Greece] and the adjacent Çeşme-Karaburun Peninsula (Anatolia, Turkey). The study resulted in close affinities of the Labiatae in Chios and Çeşme-Karaburun [high similarity indices, similar chorological spectra, and occurrence of narrowly distributed species (Anatolia-EAI-Balkan endemics) in both regions]. Additionally, extensive field work diroughout Çeşme-Karaburun Peninsula gave 11 new records for this region, meeting the first objective of the European Plant Conservation Strategy regarding documentation of plant diversity, in Anatolia, one of the biodiversity hot-spots of the Mediterranean basin. The article concludes with the benefits for a doctoral student through such crossborder mobility cooperations and further attempts to think towards a common concept in the East Aegean, where bom the East Aegean Islands and the adjacent Anatolian mainland will be studied as one phytogeographic entity. This cooperation is the first mutual step of Greece and Turkey for a joint study on the phytogeography of the East Aegean, a region, where political borders are of no phytogeographic sense. © by PSP.
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    PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC VERSUS POLITICAL BORDERS: EUROPEAN UNION'S LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME TOWARDS A COMMON CONCEPT IN THE EAST AEGEAN (E. GREECE, W. TURKEY)
    (Parlar Scientific Publications (P S P), 2010) Stefanaki, Anastasia; Akı, Cüneyt; Vlachonasios, Konstantinos; Kokkini, Stella
    This article presents a bilateral cooperation between School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and Department of Biology, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey), under the auspices of the European Lifelong Learning Programme-Erasmus. An Erasmus placement grant was provided to a doctoral student of Aristotle University, for the study of the affinities of Labiatae plants between Chios Island [East Aegean Islands (EAT), Greece] and the adjacent Cesme-Karaburun Peninsula (Anatolia, Turkey). The study resulted in close affinities of the Labiatae in Chios and Cesme-Karaburun [high similarity indices, similar chorological spectra, and occurrence of narrowly distributed species (Anatolia-EAI-Balkan endemics) in both regions]. Additionally, extensive field work throughout Cesme-Karaburun Peninsula gave 11 new records for this region, meeting the first objective of the European Plant Conservation Strategy regarding documentation of plant diversity, in Anatolia, one of the biodiversity hot-spots of the Mediterranean basin. The article concludes with the benefits for a doctoral student through such cross-border mobility cooperations and further attempts to think towards a common concept in the East Aegean, where both the East Aegean Islands and the adjacent Anatolian mainland will be studied as one phytogeographic entity. This cooperation is the first mutual step of Greece and Turkey for a joint study on the phytogeography of the East Aegean, a region, where political borders are of no phytogeographic sense.