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A total of 61 microspore-derived plants of Petunia parodii were grown to maturity revealing a predominent population of triploids, 80.3%. Cytological investigations, together with the evidence from microfluorimetry, suggest that the origin of these triploids was due to the fusion of interphase nuclei in two different pathways. In the majority of embryogenic microspores, a vegetative nucleus of 1C DNA content fused with an endo-reduplicated 2C DNA generative nucleus at the binucleate stage and produced true triploid embryoids and plantlets (A pathway). Where this fusion failed, both the vegetative and the generative nuclei divided separately and in the multinucleate microspore two or more daughter nuclei fused to form a mixoploid embryoid. Such mixoploid embryoids produced a mixed population of plants with various ploidy levels as well as ploidy polymorphism within an individual. Since the triploids are morphologically superior with a faster growth rate than their diploids and related tetraploids, a predominent population of triploid plants was obtained from such mixoploid embryoids (B pathway). By low temperature treatment of the anther-donor buds, the embryogenic response of microspores was enhanced up to 5-fold.
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Gupta, P.P. Genesis of microspore-derived triploid petunias. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 61, 327–331 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272850
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