30.06.2005 Vielen Dank an Johann Haas aus München, für die Scans aus Curtis's Botanical Magazine, viele Lücken in der äteren Literatur konnten damit geschlossen werden!! Many thanks to Johann Haas from Munich for the scans from the Curtis's Botanical Magazine, many gaps in the older literature could be closed with this help!

28.06.2005 Neue Startseite und veränderte Navigation. Alles alte bleibt bestehen, aber in der Datenbank sind viele zusätzliche Navigations-Elemente. Und von der Startseite aus kann man alles direkt anklicken. Probieren Sie's aus und schreiben Sie mir Ihre Meinung!! New startpage and new navigation elements. All old navigations remain in function, but I have built a lot of additional ones. Is the start-page (www.paeo.de) quick enough or is it too long? How long does it take for you? Write me your opinion!

28.06.2005 Liebe Freunde, wir haben unsere Website überarbeitet: Bildergalerie von der Ausstellung Rediscovering Yunnan in Dali 2005, Auszüge aus dem Ausstellungskatalog, www.rediscoveringyunnan.com. Wir freuen uns auf Klicks und Feedback, Mit herzlichen Grüßen , Rediscovering Yunnan, Evelyne Egerer & Bobby Sommer, Zahnradbahnstr. 11/12, A-1190 Wien, Tel. ++43 664 39 40 778, Fax ++43 1208 79 45,

25.06.2005 Eine neue Sorte aus Canada

24.06.2005 Paeonia officinalis ssp. banatica & Iris in Istria/Slowenia, pictures from Saso Mejak

07.06.2005 Einige interessante Quellen von Stephen G. Haw, ich konnte aber nicht alle online ausfindig machen: Here are some more relevant articles (most of which support the view that P. suffruticosa is of hybrid origin):

SUO ZhiLi, ZHANG HuiJin, ZHANG ZhiMing, CHEN FuFei, CHEN FuHui: DNA molecular evidences of the hybrids between P. rockii and P. suffruticosa based on ISSR markers. Acta Botanica Yunnanica 2005. 27(1): 42 – 8. (www.wanfangdata.com.cn/qikan/periodical.Articles/ ynzwyj/ynzw2005/0501/050105.htm)
[Paeonia rockii is considered to be one of the main progenitors of Chinese tree peony cultivars, and hybridization is likely to be the most important way for incorporation of genetic composition of P. rockii. However, no molecular evidence has shown relatedness of woody peony cultivars to P. rockii so far. In this study, P. rockii was used as a maternal parent crossing with other three Chinese woody peony cultivars (P. suffruticosa ‘Hai Tang Zheng Rong’, P. suffruticosa ‘Yan Zhi Hong’ and P. suffruticosa ‘Sheng Dan Lu’)  as paternal parents.The relationships between the F1 hybrids and their parents were analyzed using ISSR (Inter-simple sequence repeat) markers. Our results showed that ISSR fragments present in both parents were detected in the genomes of the F1 generation. Therefore, it is possible that some Chinese woody peony cultivars with a large black-purple blotch at the lower part of petals originated through hybridization with P. rockii as a parent. Our results also suggest that ISSR markers are useful for identification of hybrids and classification of cultivars.] 
Yuan Tao & Wang Lianying (2003) Morphological studies on Paeonia sect. Moutan subsect. Vaginatae in China. Acta Horticulturae Sinica 30(2): 187 - 91.
Yuan Tao & Wang Lianying (2002) Discussion on the origination of Chinese tree peony cultivars according to pollen grain morphology. Journal of Beijing Forestry University 24(1): 5 – 11. 
Chen Xiangming, Zheng Guosheng & Zhang Shengwang (2001) RAPD analysis of tree peony cultivars. Acta Horticulturae Sinica 28(4): 370 – 2. 
Abstracts of these articles can be found on www.wanfangdata.com.cn.
Have you looked at the article by 

Zhao, X. et al. (2004) Molecular evidence for the interspecific relationships in Paeonia sect. Moutan: PCR-RFLP and sequence analysis of glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT) gene. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 42 (3): 236 - 44?

It is available on-line [http://www.plantsystematics.com/qikan/manage/wenzhang/F030111.pdf ]

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