Journal
GENOME
Volume 50, Issue 2, Pages 226-233Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/G06-146
Keywords
Brassica napus; Orychophragmus violaceus; intergeneric hybrids; cytogenetics; chromosome synchronization
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In an earlier study, the progenies of intergeneric hybrids Brassica napus (2n = 38) x Orychophragmus violaceus (2n = 24) were investigated in successive generations (F-1-F-4) for the cytological phenomenon of parental genome separation during mitotic and meiotic division. In the present study, inbred lines (F-5-F-8) derived from I such hybrid were characterized for morphology, chromosome pairing behaviour, and genome composition. One F-5 plant (2n = 31) with slightly yellow petals and 12:19 and 15:16 segregation ratios in its pollen mother cells (PMCs) produced F-6 plants with distinct morphological characteristics and wide variations in fertility and chromosome numbers (2n = 25-38). F-7 and F-8 lines with distinctive morphology and wide ranges in chromsome numbers were established. In PMCs of F7 plants from 4 F-6 plants, 0-12 labelled chromosomes from O. violaceus, which predominantly appeared as bivalents, were identified by genomic in situ hybridization. They behaved synchronously with B. napus chromosomes during meiotic division. The results provide molecular cytogenetic evidence of the inclusion of O. violaceus chromosomes in the original hybrids and the cytology in the hybrids documented earlier. They also show that chromosome behaviour was altered and the parental chromosomes became synchronized after successive generations.
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