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Somatic hybrid plants were produced by protoplast fusion of navel orange and ‘Murcott’ tangor. Hybridity of the plants was confirmed by the restriction endonuclease analysis of nuclear ribosomal DNA. All of the plants (16 clones) were normal, uniform, and had the amphidiploid chromosome number of 36 (2n=2x=18 for each parent). The cpDNA analysis showed that each of the 16 somatic hybrids contained either one parental chloroplast genome or the other. In all cases, the mitochondrial genomes of the regenerated somatic hybrids were of the navel orange type.
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Kobayashi, S., Ohgawara, T., Fujiwara, K. et al. Analysis of cytoplasmic genomes in somatic hybrids between navel orange (Citrus sinensis Osb.) and ‘Murcott’ tangor. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 82, 6–10 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00231270
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