Nicotiana otophora

Nicotiana otophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Nicotiana
Species: N. otophora
Binomial name
Nicotiana otophora
L.

Nicotiana otophora is a perennial herbaceous plant.

It is a wild species of tobacco native to the Andes Mountains of Bolivia and Argentina.

Tobacco taxonomy

Recent genetic evidence suggests the possibility that it is one of the parent species of the common domesticated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), which was hybridized along with the species Nicotiana sylvestris, and Nicotiana tomentosiformis.[1][2]

The evidence for its parentage of Nicotiana tabacum is weaker at this time than it is for the other two species Nicotiana sylvestris, and Nicotiana tomentosiformis.

References

  1. Nan Ren & Michael P. Timko (August 2001). "AFLP analysis of genetic polymorphism and evolutionary relationships among cultivated and wild Nicotiana species" (PDF). Genome. 44 (4): 559–571. doi:10.1139/gen-44-4-559. PMID 11550889.
  2. Murad, L.; et al. (August 2002). "The origin of tobacco's T genome is traced to a particular lineage within Nicotiana tomentosiformis (Solanaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 89 (6): 921–928. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.6.921.
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