“…Some karyology studies were previously conducted within this genus, including the studies of Senn (1938), Ress and Hazarika (1969), Fouzdar and Tandon (1975), Yamamoto and Fujiwara (1984), Kuriyan and Narayan (1988), Kumar and Sinha (1989), Kakoli and Sumitra (1991), Şahin and Babaç (1995), Şahin et al (2000), Klamt and Schifino-Wittmann (2000), Seijo and Fernandez (2003), Ertekin (2008), andGüneş (2011b). These studies indicated that the genus Lathyrus generally has a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 14, as reported in approximately 95 Lathyrus species worldwide.…”