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The aim of the study was to characterize genomic relationships among cultivated tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) (2n=2x=24) and diploid (2n=2x=24) non-tuberous wild Solanum species (S. etuberosum Lindl.). Using genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) of mitotic and meiotic chromosomes, we analyzed intergeneric somatic hybrids between tomato and S. etuberosum. Of the five somatic hybrids, two plants were amphidiploids (2n=4x=48) mostly forming intragenomic bivalents in their microsporocytes, with a very low frequency of multivalents involving the chromosomes of tomato and S. etuberosum (less than 0.2 per meiocyte). Tomato chromosomes showed preferential elimination during subsequent meiotic divisions of the amphidiploids. Transmission of the parental chromosomes into microspores was also evaluated by GISH analysis of androgenic plants produced by direct embryogenesis from the amphidiploid somatic hybrids. Of the four androgenic regenerants, three were diploids (2n=2x=24 or 2n=2x+1=25) derived from reduced male gametes of the somatic hybrids, and one plant was a hypertetraploid (2n=4x+4=52). GISH revealed that each anther-derived plant had a unique chromosome composition. The prospects for introgression of desirable traits from S. etuberosum into the gene pool of cultivated tomato are discussed.
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Received: 2 August 2000 / Accepted: 4 December 2000
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Gavrilenko, T., Thieme, R. & Rokka, VM. Cytogenetic analysis of Lycopersicon esculentum (+) Solanum etuberosum somatic hybrids and their androgenetic regenerants. Theor Appl Genet 103, 231–239 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220100626
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001220100626