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Male sterility of (haploid x species) hybrids often hampers the exploitation of wildSolanum species in breeding for cold tolerance. In a study aimed at finding ways round these problems, we found that one accession of the cold tolerant wild speciesS. sanctae-rosae gave progenies segregating for male fertility in crosses withtuberosum haploids. Moreover, a source of male fertility restorer gene(s) was hypothesized in the (haploid x species) hybrid UP88-C80 (tbr x chc). A relatively high freezing tolerance was found in the progenies coming fromtuberosum haploid xsanctae-rosae crosses and some hybrids showed a freezing killing temperature as low as −5.4°C. Although the most tolerant clones did not shed pollen, at least one clone (Sr6,tbr x sct) combined male fertility, 2n pollen production and good freezing tolerance (−3.9°C) and might be directly used in crosses with tetraploidS. tuberosum in order to introgress resistance to low temperature intuberosum form.
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Contribution no. 137 from the Research Centre for Vegetable Breeding-CNR. Research supported by National Research Council of Italy, special project RAISA, subproject no. 2, paper no. 2776.
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Tucci, M., Carputo, D., Bile, G. et al. Male fertility and freezing tolerance of hybrids involvingSolanum tuberosum haploids and diploidSolanum species. Potato Res 39, 345–353 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02357938
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