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Research article2003Peer reviewed

Somatic hybrids between Arabidopsis thaliana and cytoplasmic male-sterile radish (Raphanus sativus)

Yamagishi H, Glimelius K

Abstract

Somatic hybrids were produced by protoplast fusion between Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Columbia and a male-sterile radish line MS-Gensuke (Raphanus sativus) with the Ogura cytoplasm. Forty-one shoots were differentiated from the regenerated calli and established as shoot cultures in vitro. About 20 of these shoots were judged to be hybrids based on growth characteristics and morphology. Molecular analyses of 11 shoots were performed, confirming the hybrid features. Of these 11 shoots, eight were established as rooted plants in the greenhouse. Polymerase chain reaction and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analyses of the nuclear genomes of all analyzed shoots and plants confirmed that they contained hybrid DNA patterns. Their chromosome numbers also supported the hybrid nature of the plants. Investigations of the organelles in the hybrids revealed that the chloroplast (cp) genome was exclusively represented by radish cpDNA, while the mitochondrial DNA configuration showed a combination of both parental genomes as well as fragments unique to the hybrids. Hybrid plants that flowered were male-sterile independent of the presence of the Ogura CMS-gene orf138

Published in

Plant Cell Reports
2003, Volume: 22, number: 1, pages: 52-58 Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
    Horticulture
    Food Science

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-003-0655-0

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    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/334