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Following PEG and high pH induced fusion of haploid tetrad protoplasts of a normal purple flowered variety of P. hybrida with cell suspension protoplasts of a nuclear albino mutant of the variety Blue Lace, triploid gametosomatic hybrid plants were recovered. These hybrids possessed an intermediate floral morphology and the expected chromosome number of 2n=3x=21. Selection was based on the fact that pollen tetrad protoplasts failed to divide in culture and that, following complementation to chlorophyll proficiency in the gametosomatic hybrid, the hybrid cells were visualised against a background of albino cells of the variety Blue Lace. The production of such gametosomatic hybrid plants in Petunia has shown that the concept of gametosomatic hybridisation can be extended to genera other than Nicotiana and that alternative selection strategies are available.
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Abbreviations
- BAP:
-
6-benzylaminopurine
- IAA:
-
3-indole acetic acid
- NAA:
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naphthalene acetic acid
- Z:
-
zeatin
- ABN α:
-
bromonaphthalene
- MS:
-
Murashige and Skoog (1962)
- MW:
-
molecular weight
- PEG:
-
polyethylene glycol
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Lee, C.H., Power, J.B. Intraspecific gametosomatic hybridisation in Petunia hybrida . Plant Cell Reports 7, 17–18 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272968
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272968