Evaluation of Crossability between Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana excelsior
Evaluation of Crossability between Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana excelsior
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DOI：
10.3390/agronomy11122583
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2021-12
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T. Tezuka;Naoto Kitamura;M. Yanase;T. Morikawa
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T. Tezuka;Naoto Kitamura;M. Yanase;T. Morikawa
Wild tobacco species in the Nicotiana section Suaveolentes are promising genetic resources to introduce their disease resistance to cultivated tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum. However, hybrid lethality is observed in hybrid seedlings from crosses between most Suaveolentes species and N. tabacum. In particular, N. benthamiana belonging to the section Suaveolentes produces only viable hybrids after crossing with N. tabacum. In the present study, crossability between N. benthamiana and N. excelsior (section Suaveolentes) was investigated to test the possible usefulness of N. benthamiana as the bridge parent to transfer desirable genes of N. excelsior to N. tabacum via bridge crossing. After reciprocal crosses using three accessions of N. benthamiana and N. excelsior each, several crossing barriers such as cross-incompatibility, seed abortion, and male and female hybrid sterility were observed. Although reciprocal hybrids between N. benthamiana and N. excelsior showed a high degree of chromosome pairing in meiosis, univalents and multivalents, as well as chromosome bridges and lagging chromosomes, were observed. These meiotic abnormalities were thought to cause hybrid sterility. The possible usefulness of reciprocal hybrids between N. benthamiana and N. excelsior is discussed.
