Journal
EUPHYTICA
Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 219-229Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-011-0444-8
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Solanum tuberosum; Reciprocal difference; Solanum demissum; DNA methylation; Pollen DNA; MSAP analysis
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- MEXT [18580005]
- Calbee Potato, Inc.
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18580005] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Reciprocal differences, mostly caused by cytoplasmic effects, are frequently observed in interspecific hybrids. Previously, we found that crosses onto Solanum demissum were much successful with the pollen of interspecific hybrids between S. tuberosum as female and S. demissum as male (TD hybrids) than the reciprocal ones (DT hybrids). To elucidate this reciprocally different crossability, we analyzed the pollen DNA of TD and DT using methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) analysis. Using 126 primer combinations, MSAP analysis revealed 57 different bands between bulked pollen DNA samples of TD and DT. Individual examination of 16 TD and 9 DT plants disclosed eight bands uniformly different between TD and DT. Their sequencing results revealed two pairs of bands to be identical to each other, resulting in six distinct sequences. As expected, one band shared high homology with chloroplast DNA, and another one with mitochondrial DNA. However, one band that was apparently different at DNA sequence level and maternally transmitted from S. demissum, showed no homology with any known sequence. The remaining three bands were of DNA methylation level differences with no or uncertain homology to known sequences. To our knowledge, this is the first report detecting reciprocal differences in DNA sequence or DNA methylation other than those in cytoplasmic DNA.
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