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Studies of pollen grain germination, pollen tube growth, micropylar penetration and seed set in intraspecific and intergeneric crosses within three Cruciferae species

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Pollen grain germination, pollen tube growth and micropylar penetration were investigated in intraspecific and intergeneric crosses involving Brassica napus L. ssp. oleifera (Metzg.) Sinsk. (oil-seed rape or fodder rape), xBrassicoraphanus Sageret (Raparadish) and diploid (2x) and tetraploid (4x) accessions of Sinapis alba L.(white mustard). For the reciprocal intergeneric crosses between B. napus and xBrassicoraphanus no effective barriers to pollen tube growth on stigmata or in styles were observed. The resulting low frequency of hybrid plants was mainly associated with a low rate of ovules with micropylar penetration per siliqua or with embryo abortion. Hybrid plants could be obtained without use of embryo rescue. In reciprocal crosses between B. napus and S. alba 2x or 4x incongruity barriers were observed on the stigma, in the style, and in the ovary resulting in a low frequency of ovules with micropylar penetration per siliqua. Open flower-pollination compared to bud-pollination generally was the more favourable procedure for pollen grain germination and pollen tube growth in crosses involving S. alba, but for micropylar penetration and seed set no differences were observed. Crosses between S. alba 2x (♀) and B.napus (♂) were found to result in a higher frequency of ovules with micropylar penetration as compared to reciprocal crosses or crosses with S. alba 4x. All reciprocal crosses between B. napus and S. alba 2x or 4x were unsuccessful when no embryo rescue was applied. Embryo rescue shortly after pollination, i.e. 2 to 5 days, however, resulted in hybrid seeds and plants, but only when applied to crosses between S. alba 2x (♀) and B. napus (♂). The possible effects of the genome constitution, taxonomic distance and the parthenogenetic and parthenogenesis inducing ability of the parental genotypes on the observed malfunctions at the pre-and/or post-zygotic stage of the pollen grain-pistil interactions are discussed.

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Abbreviations

DAP:

Days After Pollination

IAA:

Indole-3-Acetic Acid

kin:

Kinetin

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Lelivelt, C.L.C. Studies of pollen grain germination, pollen tube growth, micropylar penetration and seed set in intraspecific and intergeneric crosses within three Cruciferae species. Euphytica 67, 185–197 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00040620

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