subspecies and endemic species have been separated. In this paper, the variation in
genome size (GS) and ploidy of this grass including several of its subspecies and two
related species in Eurasia was investigated by flow cytometric (FCM) measurements. GS
and ploidy data were also related to specific environments and reproduction mode. Ploidy
levels found by FCM were confirmed by chromosome counts of diploid (2 n= 28) and …