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Protoplast fusion makes possible the fusion of two different cytoplasms, allowing genetical analysis of cytoplasmic factors. Two varieties of Nicotiana tabacum differing by their cytoplasms have been used. Techne, the first variety, obtained by an interspecific cross between N. debneyi (female) and N. tabacum (male) is characterized by the nuclear tabacum genome inside the debneyi cytoplasm. Techne plants present abnormal flowers with cytoplasmic male sterility (cytoplasmic marker) and sessile leave (nuclear marker). Techne leaf protoplasts were fused with leaf protoplasts of N. tabacum var. Samsun (or Xanthi). The last variety is characterized by petiolated leaves and normal flowers, because it possesses the nuclear tabacum genome associated with the tabacum cytoplasm. The nuclear marker (leaf shape) and the cytoplasmic one (flower shape inducing male sterility or fertility) have been used to distinguish among the whole regenerated plants the somatic nuclear hybrids and the cytoplasmic hybrids (cybrids) displaying the nuclear phenotype of one of the two parents associated with a modified flower type, intermediate between the parental ones.
The chloroplastic (cp) DNA contained in each parent has been specifically identified by using EcoRI restriction nuclease and gel electrophoresis. EcoRI fragment patterns of cp DNA isolated from the first progeny of the regenerated cytoplasmic hybrids revealed that only one of the two parental cp DNAs is present in all cases; neither mixture of both parental cp DNAs nor recombinant cp DNA molecules were observed. This indicates that a specific elimination of one or the other parental cp DNAs occurs after the initial mixing of the cytoplasms. The study of the association of the modified flower type with the cp DNA isolated from the corresponding plant showed that cp DNA seems independent from the mechanism of cytoplasmic male sterility in tobacco.
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Belliard, G., Pelletier, G., Vedel, F. et al. Morphological characteristics and chloroplast DNA distribution in different cytoplasmic parasexual hybrids of Nicotiana tabacum . Molec. Gen. Genet. 165, 231–237 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00332521
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