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Gametosomatic hybrids produced by the fusion of microspore protoplasts of Nicotiana tabacum Km+Sr+ with somatic cell protoplasts of N. rustica were analysed for their organelle composition. For the analysis of mitochondrial (mt)DNA, species-specific patterns were generated by Southern hybridization of restriction endonuclease digests of total DNA and mtDNA with four DNA probes of mitochondrial origin: cytochrome oxidase subunit I, cytochrome oxidase subunit II, 26s rDNA and 5s-18s rDNA. Of the 22 hybrids analyzed, some had parental-type pattern for some probes and novel-type for the others, indicating interaction between mtDNA of the two parent species. For chloroplast (cp)DNA analysis, species-specific patterns were generated by Southern hybridization of restriction endonuclease digests of total DNA with large subunits of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase and cpDNA as probes. All the hybrids had N. rustica-specific patterns. Hybrids were not resistant to streptomycin, a trait encoded by the chloroplast genome of N. tabacum. In gametosomatic fusions of the two Nicotiana species, mitochondria but not the chloroplasts are transmitted from the parent contributing microspore protoplasts.
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Pental, D., Pradhan, A.K. & Mukhopadhyay, A. Transmission of organelles in triploid hybrids produced by gametosomatic fusions of two Nicotiana species. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 78, 547–552 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290841
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