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Callus protoplasts of a Nicotiana tabacum chlorophyll-deficient mutant were fused with mesophyll protoplasts from one of following five sources: 4 cmsanalogs of tobacco bearing the cytoplasms of N. plumbaginifolia, N. suaveolens, N. repanda, and N. undulata, respectively, as well as wild species N. glauca. In another series of experiments, callus protoplasts from the chlorophyll-deficient genome Su/Su mutant of tobacco were fused with mesophyll protoplasts of the wild species N. glauca and those of a plastome chlorophyll-deficient tobacco mutant. The screening of hybrids consisted of visual identification followed by mechanical isolation and cloning of heteroplasmic fusion products in microdroplets of nutrient medium. Studies of regenerated plants included the analyses of gross morphology of plants, leaf and flower morphology, analysis of chromosome size and morphology and chromosome numbers, studies of multiple molecular forms of esterase and amylase, analysis of chloroplast DNA restriction patterns and analyses of chlorophyll-deficiency controlled by Su and P − genes. The study of progeny of 41 clones representing all species' combinations demonstrated that regenarants of most (63%) clones from intraspecific (for nuclear genes) combinations were cybrid forms, whereas in the case of the fusion N. tabacum + N. glauca, the true nuclear hybrids prevailed and the proportion of cybrids did not exceed 26%. Clones regenerating both hybrid and cybrid plants from the same fusion product were also found.
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Gleba, Y., Kolesnik, N.N., Meshkene, I.V. et al. Transmission genetics of the somatic hybridization process in Nicotiana . Theoret. Appl. Genetics 69, 121–128 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00272881
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