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PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 483-490Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-002-0512-6
Keywords
banana; flow cytometry; nuclear DNA content; gamma irradiation
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We report a procedure for the rapid and convenient detection of aneuploidy in triploid Musa using DNA flow cytometry. From a population of plants derived from gamma-irradiated shoot tips, plants were selected based on aberrant morphology and their chromosome numbers were counted. Aneuploids plants with chromosome numbers 2n=31 or 32 were found as well as the expected triploid plants (2n=3x=33). At the same time, the nuclear DNA content of all plants was measured using flow cytometry. The flow cytometric assay involved the use of nuclei isolated from chicken red blood cells (CRBC), which served as an internal reference standard. The relative DNA content of individual plants was expressed as a ratio of DNA content of CRBC and Musa (DNA index). In order to estimate the chromosome number using flow cytometry, the relative DNA content of plants with unknown ploidy was expressed as a percentage of the DNA content of triploid plants. The classification based on flow cytometry fully agreed with the results obtained by chromosome counting. The results indicated that flow cytometry is a convenient and rapid method for the detection of aneuploidy in Musa.
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