Summary
Mesophyll protoplasts of an interspecific Lycopersicon esculentum Mill, (tomato) x Lycopersicon pennellii hybrid plant (EP) were fused with callus-derived protoplasts of Solanum lycopersicoides Dun. using a modified PEG/DMSO procedure. The EP plant was previously transformed by Agrobacterium tumefaciens which carried the NPTII and nopaline synthase genes. Protoplasts were plated at 105/ml in modified KM medium and 16 days post-fusion 25 ug/ml kanamycin was added to the culture medium. During shoot regeneration, 212 morphologically similar putative somatic hybrids were delineated visually from kanamycin resistant EP's. Forty-eight shoots, randomly selected among the 212, were further verified as somatic hybrids by their leaf phosphoglucoisomerase heterodimer isozyme pattern. However, the resulting plants were virtually pollen sterile. In a second fusion, mesophyll protoplasts of Solanum melongena (eggplant) were fused with EP callus-derived protoplasts. Using the same fusion and culture procedure, only two dark green calli were visually selected among the pale green parental EP and verified as somatic cell hybrids by several isozyme patterns. These two calli have produced only leaf primordia in one and half years on regeneration medium.
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Abbreviations
- ABA:
-
abscisic acid
- BAP:
-
6 benzylaminopurine
- 2,4-D:
-
2,4 dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
- DMSO:
-
dimethyl sulfoxide
- GA3 :
-
gibberellic acid
- GOT:
-
glutamate oxaloacetate
- IAA:
-
indoleacetic acid
- IBA:
-
indolebutyric acid
- IDH:
-
isocitrate dehydrogenase
- MDH:
-
malate dehydrogenase
- MES:
-
morpholinoethane-sulfonic acid
- PEG:
-
polyethylene glycol
- 6-PGDH:
-
6 phosphogluconate dehydrogenase
- PGI:
-
phosphoglucoisomerase
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Guri, A., Dunbar, L.J. & Sink, K.C. Somatic hybridization between selected Lycopersicon and Solanum species. Plant Cell Reports 10, 76–80 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00236461
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