Pseudogamous embryogenesis and the degree of parthenogenesis inAllium tuberosum
Pseudogamous embryogenesis and the degree of parthenogenesis inAllium tuberosum
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马铃薯假受精胚胎发生及孤雌生殖程度
DOI:
10.1007/bf00714561
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发表时间:
1992
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通讯作者:
Y. Nagato
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作者:
A. Kojima;Y. Nagato
Early stages of egg embryony and antipodal embryony in ovules from both pollinated and unpollinated flowers ofAllium tuberosum, a diplosporous apomict, were observed. Whether flowers were pollinated or not, autonomous egg and antipodal embryonies occurred at nearly equal frequencies and progressed almost synchronously for several days. An electrophoretic analysis of endosperm esterase demonstrated the fertilization of polar nuclei. It was thus confirmed thatA. tuberosumis a pseudogamous apomict. The degree of parthenogenesis, calculated as the percentage of ovules in which egg cells showed autonomous embryonic development, ranged between 62% and 94% among six cultivars and was nearly equal to the degree of diplospory previously reported. The present results show that most unreduced egg cells and egg-like antipodal cells ofA. tuberosumhave the ability to start embryogenesis independently of pollination.