HIGH TRANSMISSION OF PATERNAL PLASTID DNA IN ALFALFA PLANTS DEMONSTRATED BY RESTRICTION FRAGMENT POLYMORPHIC ANALYSIS
HIGH TRANSMISSION OF PATERNAL PLASTID DNA IN ALFALFA PLANTS DEMONSTRATED BY RESTRICTION FRAGMENT POLYMORPHIC ANALYSIS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00223786
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发表时间:
1990-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
SORENSEN, EL
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作者:
MASOUD, SA;JOHNSON, LB;SORENSEN, EL
A high frequency of paternal plasmid transmission occurred in progeny from crosses among normal green alfalfa plants. Plasmid transmission was anlayzed by hybridization of radiolabeled alfalfa plastid DNA (cpDNA) probes to Southern blots of restruction digests of the progeny DNA. Each probe revealed a specific polymorphism differentiating the parental plastid genomes. Of 212 progeny, 34 were heteroplastidic, with their cpDNAs ranging from predominantly paternal to predominantly maternal. Regrowth of shoots from heteroplasmic plants following revoval of top growth revealed the persistence of mixed plastids in a given plant. However, different shoots within a green heteroplasmic plant exhibited paternal, maternal, or mixed cpDNAs. Evidence of maternal nuclear genomic influence on the frequency of paternal plastid trnasmission was observed in some reciprocal crosses. A few tetraploid F1 progeny were obtained from tetraploid (2n = 4.times. = 32) Medicago sativa ssp. sativa .times. diploid (2n = 2 .times. = 16) M. sativa ssp. falcata crosses, and resulted from unreduced gametes. Here more than the maternal genome alone apparently functioned in controlling plastid trnasmission. Considering all crosses, only 5 of 212 progeny cpDNAs lacked evidence of a definitive paternal plastid fragment.