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The gene frequency for parallel spindles (ps) was estimated from the frequency of plants producing 2n pollen in three cultivated groups: 2x Phureja (phu), 2x Stenotomum (stn), and 4x Andigena (adg), as well as in four related wild taxa: 2x Solanum brevicaule (brc), 2x S. sparsipilum (spl), 4x S. gourlayi (grl) and 4x S. gourlayi-S. infundibuliforme hybrids (grl-ifd). Plants with more than 1% large pollen were considered as 2n pollen producers. Observations of meiosis in a sample of 2n pollen-producing plants indicated that parallel spindles is the mechanism of 2n pollen formation. The number of plants with 2n pollen among the total examined was 228 plants (15.5%) of 1,473 in 2x spl, 31 (26.7%) of 116 in 2x brc, 92 (17.4%) of 528 in 2x stn, 665 (22.1%) of 3,008 in 2x phu, 731 (51.4%) of 1,421 in 4x adg, 591 (41.2%) of 1,436 in 4x grl, and 36 (64.3%) out of 56 in 4x grl-ifd. The ps gene frequencies assuming Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium were: 0.393 for 2x spl, 0.462 for 2x brc, 0.417 for 2x stn, 0.470 for 2x phu, 0.847 for 4x adg, 0.801 for 4x grl, and 0.895 for 4x grl-ifd. Twenty-five adg clones were randomly selected from a large population and were crossed with 2x clone W5295.7, which produces 2n pollen by parallel spindles (ps). The 4x progenies from 4x×2x crosses were used to determine the genotypes at the ps locus by screening 10–20 plants in each family for 2n pollen. Based on chromosome segregation at the ps locus, 9, 14, 1, and 1 clones were nulliplex, simplex, simplex or duplex, and duplex, respectively. The frequency of the ps gene in the adg population was estimated to be 0.825 and 0.815 for chromosome and chromatid segregation, respectively. The high frequencies of 2n pollen and the ps gene in cultivated 2x and 4x groups, and in wild taxa closely related to them, provide evidence for sexual polyploidization in the tuber-bearing Solanums.
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Communicated by K. Tsunewaki
Paper No. 3032 from the Laboratory of Genetics. Research supported by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; International Potato Center; USDA, SEA, CGRO 84-CRCR-1-1389; and Frito Lay, Inc.
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Watanabe, K., Peloquin, S.J. Occurrence of 2n pollen and ps gene frequencies in cultivated groups and their related wild species in tuber-bearing Solanums . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 78, 329–336 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265292
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