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Overcoming unilateral breeding barriers between Lycopersicon peruvianum and cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum

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Treatment of Lycopersicon peruvianum stigmas with an artificial medium analogous to stigmatic exudate allowed pollen germination and growth on immature pistils. Growth of Lycopersicon esculentum pollen tubes to L. peruvianum ovules, an otherwise incompatible cross, was achieved following such treated bud-pollinations. No plantlets were recovered, although a few embryos from this cross at the globularity heart stage of development were excised at 22 days after pollination, indicating the presence of crossing failures as severe as in the reciprocal cross. Hybrid plants were obtained from the reciprocal cross, using as pollen parent an L. peruvianum line selected for congruity with L. esculentum. Bud pollinations to L. peruvianum, using these interspecific F1 hybrids as the pollen parent, allowed viable embryo development and plantlet recovery. Resulting backcross plants, which possess approximately 1/4 L. esculentum genome in a L. peruvianum cytoplasm, may facilitate further introgression of the L. esculentum nuclear genes into in foreign cytoplasm.

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    T. M. Gradziel

  2. Department of Horticultural Sciences, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, 14456, Geneva, NY, USA

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Gradziel, T.M., Robinson, R.W. Overcoming unilateral breeding barriers between Lycopersicon peruvianum and cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum . Euphytica 54, 1–9 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145624

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